Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Post office. 6 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- peeling-timber-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Post office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WISBECH BRIDGE STREET TF 4609 (South Side) 6/6 (Nos. 1-3 (consec) (Post Office) GV II
Post Office built in 1887 in 'French, Mediaeval Domestic Style'. Red brick with limestone dressings; slate roof. Main entrance facade to east with wing to west of four 'bays'. Two storeys and attic. Parapet gables with end stacks, each with linked circular limestone shafts. Three tall facade gabled attic windows with flanking slender buttresses and finials. Stone coped parapet and cornice, cill band at first floor and stone plinth. Four, first floor, and three gound floor windows (central pairs linked), with flat arched, roll-moulded stone architraves rounded at corners. Entrance to left hand, half- glazed door in stone, crocketed arched doorway linked at impost to windows by stone band. Two storey wing has two large 'fanned' ground floor windows with stone key blocks and four first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars, and parapet. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.192, 1898. Peckover, P.H. photographic collection, p.l28, W. & F. Mus, 1931.
Listing NGR: TF4606509604
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