Former Post Office, corner of Packer Street and Fleece Street
10, Fleece Street, Rochdale, OL16 1LY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038535
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Former Post Office, corner of Packer Street and Fleece Street
- Statutory Address:
- 10, Fleece Street, Rochdale, OL16 1LY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038535
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Former Post Office, corner of Packer Street and Fleece Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, Fleece Street, Rochdale, OL16 1LY
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 10, Fleece Street, Rochdale, OL16 1LY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 89676 13308
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 13/11/2019
SD 8913 NE
11/85
ROCHDALE,
FLEECE STREET
10, Former Post Office, corner of Packer Street and Fleece Street
(Formerly listed as County Court Building, PACKER STREET (east side))
29.03.82
GV
II
Former post office, now public house. Built in two phases; the first, comprising the northern three bays, was completed in 1875, the second phase of two bays was added after 1892 in matching style. It was probably built to a design by James Williams (1824-92), the first surveyor for post offices at the Office of Works, an office he held from 1859 to 1884. He designed very similar post offices in classical and Italianate styles at Newcastle and Stockton-on-Tees, for example.
This post office was superseded when the new post office in the Esplanade opened in 1927. The building in Packer Street later became the County Court offices (c1930s-1998) and is now (2019) a public house.
Ashlar. Five bays to Packer Street and three to Fleece Street; three storeys. Symmetrical main elevation but for door in left-hand bay. Major and minor Doric pilasters to ground floor, coupled on side facade with Doric entablature. Windows have rectangular lights over framed by consoles. First floor windows have dentil cornices and moulded architrave. Second floor has guilloche sill band, moulded architraves and heavy entablatures with Greek key and dentil detail.
Listing NGR: SD8967613308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358915
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Osley, J, Built for Service Post Office Architecture, (2010), 11, 123-4
Robertson, W, Rochdale Past and Present. A history and guide (2nd Edition), (1876 ), illustration between pages 78 and 79
Taylor, R, Rochdale Retrospect, (1956), 114
Websites
Rochdale Post Office (1875) British Post Office Buildings and their Architects: an Illustrated Guide, accessed 7 November 2019 from http://britishpostofficearchitects.weebly.com/1875---fleece-street.html
Other
Touchstones, Rochdale Local Studies Centre, N6, Christmas card of 1890
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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