Post Office Scarborough, England
Listed Building Data
Post Office has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1382075
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 18 August 2000
- Name
- POST OFFICE
- Location
- POST OFFICE, ABERDEEN WALK
- District
- Scarborough
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- TA 04116 88588
- Easting
- 504116.0000
- Northing
- 488588.0000
Listed Building Description
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TA 0488 ABERDEEN WALK 782/4/10025 (Northeast side) 18-AUG-00 Post Office
GV II
Post Office. 1909. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with polished flush marble plinth. Baroque Revival style. 3 storey with ashlar ground floor and brick upper floors with ashlar dressings. Street front has 11 windows with projecting 5 window centre, 2 window side wings and single window pavilions at either end. Central slightly projecting bay has moulded ashlar doorway with prominent keystones and Ionic columns supporting a large segmental pediment with central plaque inscribed POST OFFICE 1909. Above giant Ionic pilasters supporting steep pediment with between a tall glazing bar sash with prominent keystone and segmental pediment and a smaller glazing bar sash above in plainer moulded surround. Either side 2 glazing bar sashes in complex moulded surrounds, first floor has 2 glazing bar sashes with keystones and pediments, second floor windows smaller with glazing bar sashes and keystones between the windows giant banded pilasters all topped with deep dentilated cornice and brick parapet. Pavilions have round headed ashlar arches with prominent keystones on the ground floor similar sashes above with triangular pediments and topped with circular windows all set in shallow curve with banded quoins and scrolled tops.
Listing NGR: TA0411688588