Post Office

SOUTH STREET 1. 5191 (West Side) Post Office SY 6990 7/293 II GV 2. 1904-5. Architect: John Rutherford. Red brick with Portland ashlar dressings. Pitched tile roof. 2 storeys. Full eaves entablature with modillion cornice and blocking course. Roughly symmetrical about entrance on corner, which is curved and crowned by ashlar parapet and green copper dome with finial. Door with semi-circular fanlight,flanked by blocked Tuscan pilasters taking entablature with pulvinated frieze, against which are placed blocked Ionic half-columns taking simple consoles which support a nearly semi-circular moulded stone hood. Above this are woords "Post Office" in contemporary brass lettering. On lst floor are 4 very narrow sashes with glazing bars separated by Ionic pilasters which take the eaves entablature. Corner bay is flanked by 2 bays with Portland ashlar quoins, each crowned by open pediments with modillions. 1 range each of sashes with glazing bars, those on 1st floor segment-headed. Ground floor windows have stone aprons, moulded architraves, triple keys and segmental pediments. 1st floor windows have moulded sills, shouldered architraves, and segmental cornices with triple keys breaking through them. The South Street elevation has an identical bay at the opposite end to this. between them on ground floor, is 1 huge sash window with glazing bars in segmental arch with moulded architrave and triple keystone below which are the letter boxes. Above it are 6 sashes with glazing bars joined by continuous moulded sill separated by Ionic pilasters which take the eaves entablature. The other elevation, however, has 3 sashes with glazing bars and a door with fanlight on ground floor, all with moulded sills, architraves, and triple keystones. Above these 8 pairs of sashes with glazing bars with moulded sills but plain ashlar surrounds. End bay on this elevation has Portland quoins and parapet above eaves entablature. Door in moulded architrave with pediment. 1 window on lst floor, with moulded architrave and triple keystone. Interior: Thomas Hardy designed the War Memorial Inscription (1920). NB. Neo-Georgian extension on west side is not included. Nos 1 to 6 (consec)South Terrace, Nos 37 to 41 (consec), No 40A, No 41A and the Post Office form a group.

Listing NGR: SY6921990507

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