Northwich Post Office

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:: 110, Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5AB

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 57646
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hartwell, C, Hyde, M, Hubbard, E, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England. Cheshire, (2011), 514

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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.