Northwich Post Office
110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139072
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Northwich Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139072
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Northwich Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB
- Statutory Address 2:
- 110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB
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.
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:
- 110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB
- Statutory Address:
- 110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northwich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66174 74017
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 March 2023 to correct date of build, and add architect and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 67 SE
5/51
NORTHWICH C.P.
WITTON STREET (south Side)
No.110 Northwich Post Office
18/2/86
II
Post Office, (in 2023, public house), 1914, by Charles P Wilkinson of the Office Of Works. Subsidence-liftable small-framed timber structure with recessed plaster panels; tiled roof. Three storeys plus attic; five windows. Symmetrical, Elizabethan, lavishly ornamented. Four storey porch has double doors in Tudor archway with balustraded leaded overlight; paired pilasters carry, on shaped brackets, bressumer inscribed POST OFFICE in gilt Gothic lettering; ornate two storey oriel window; deeply jettied gable with mullioned and transomed casement. Left of doorway a mullioned and transomed casement and a Tudor-arched vehicular entrance to sorting office at rear; two mullioned and transomed windows right of doorway; two to each upper storey to each side of porch; four gabled attic dormers. Chevron and quatrefoil braces and ornate timber decoration to panels; coved plaster eaves; casements to front leaded. Plain small-framed end gables. Sorting office of plain framing with grey slate roof. Interior The frame is expressed.
Listing NGR: SJ6617474017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57646
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartwell, C, Hyde, M, Hubbard, E, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England. Cheshire, (2011), 514
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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