The Old Post Office

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 SOUTH EMBANKMENT 673-1/8/229 (West side) No.9 The Old Post Office

GV II

Offices, former Post Office. c1890. Rear plain red brick, south side is rendered, front has rusticated ashlar plinth of limestone, Flemish-bond red brick above with Bathstone dressings; end stacks with brick chimneyshafts; slate roof; double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 4-window front in Italianate style. Windows are round-headed at ground- and second-floor levels and have segmental-arch heads on the first floor, all containing horned sashes without glazing bars. Ground floor has a chamfered plinth over the limestone base. Originally there were 2 round-headed front doorways, one each end, but the right one has been blocked by a window in the same style as the others. Left one contains original door with faceted panels under plain fanlight. Doors and windows have Bathstone surrounds and hoodmoulds with projecting keystones springing from stone string courses. Stone string courses at sill level on upper floors and stone quoins each end. Deep moulded stone cornice and low brick parapet with stone coping. Roof parallel to street and gable-ended. Left (south) side is rendered. It contains 2 large sash windows under low segmental arches, inserted C20 doorway near front and rear corner has stone quoins. INTERIOR: Left front doorway into ground-floor offices, but originally into stair hall. Inserted doorway in left side wall now to original open-well stair with turned balusters. Other original features probably survive elsewhere. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX8785751255