Survey Data
Reg No
22205815
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Office
Date
1890 - 1900
Coordinates
186485, 138118
Date Recorded
03/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached double-pile four-bay two-storey former postal sorting office, built 1895, with single-storey extension to rear, now disused. Hipped slate roofs with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls having dentillated red brick cornice incorporating window heads, red brick sill course to first storey and red brick coursing incorporating ground floor window heads. Cut limestone date plaque to road elevation. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows and limestone sills. Square-headed door openings to end elevations and to south end of rear elevation, with timber panelled doors having paned overlights. Random rubble limestone boundary walls with cut limestone and moulded red brick piers to site.
Appraisal
The façade of this former postal sorting office is greatly enlivened by red brick detailing which enhances the symmetrical design. It is an impressive late nineteenth century building which, though now disused, exists largely in its early form and retains much of its original fabric.