GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS NORWICH UNION HOUSE

GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375013
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS NORWICH UNION HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375013
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS NORWICH UNION HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 10, QUEBEC STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE
Statutory Address:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 10, QUEBEC STREET

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 29864 33471

Details

LEEDS

SE2933SE CITY SQUARE 714-1/77/109 (West side) 22/03/74 General Post Office with basement railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY SQUARE The General Post Office)

GV II

Includes: No.10 Norwich Union House QUEBEC STREET. Post Office premises. 1896. By Sir Henry Tanner. Ashlar, slate and lead roofs; cast-iron railings. Classical style. Principal facade to City Square has a wide central bay of 3 storeys and attic, the ground floor rising through 2 storeys of the flanking 4-storey, 3-bay ranges; all over basements. Bays 1, 3, 5 and 7 project slightly and are topped by a small pediment flanked by octagonal domed turrets and tall corniced chimney with arched links; between are semicircular pedimented gables flanked with urns. Ground floor centre: a shallow splayed Roman Doric arcade of 5 arches, original wood-framed round-arched windows carved with Ionic columns; flanking entrances have paired Ionic columns and pediments over supported on console brackets with carved Classical figures holding writing instruments at sides. 1st floor divided by Corinthian pilasters, the centre 4 attached columns with sculpted draped figures representing Art and Science between 2nd-floor windows; 1st-floor windows have moulded architraves, segmental pediments and segmental bowed balustered balconies; 2nd-floor windows plain rectangular with flat pilasters between. Moulded cornices at each floor level; modillion eaves cornice and parapet; 5 wooden pedimented dormers. Tall slender clock tower centre, angle pilasters, pediments, corner urns, octagonal domed cupola. Left return, No.10 Quebec Street: plainer style, 3, 2, 3, 7, 3 round-arched windows to ground floor, the 3-window bays slightly projecting with pedimented gables; central pedimented dormer window flanked by corniced chimneys. Right return, Infirmary Street: gable end and 1 bay of original east wing remain; panelled door far right, attached columns support pediment. INTERIOR: Ionic columns with swags mirroring those outside. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to front, left and right returns: panels with scrolls and flowers, urn finials.

Listing NGR: SE2986433471

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Legacy System number:: 465893
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.