King Edwards Buildings Post Office
KING EDWARDS BUILDINGS POST OFFICE, 106-113, NEWGATE STREET EC1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194097
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- King Edwards Buildings Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- KING EDWARDS BUILDINGS POST OFFICE, 106-113, NEWGATE STREET EC1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194097
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- King Edwards Buildings Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING EDWARDS BUILDINGS POST OFFICE, 106-113, NEWGATE STREET EC1
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:
- KING EDWARDS BUILDINGS POST OFFICE, 106-113, NEWGATE STREET EC1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31893 81388
Details
NEWGATE STREET EC1 (North side) TQ3181 SE Nos 106-113 (consec) 8/181 (King Edward Buildings Post Office) II* 6.8.74
Postal Sorting Office. 1907-11 by Sir Henry Tanner of Office of Works, principal assistant (Sir) Richard Allison. Front in free classical style, of Portland stone with polished grey-granite base and area-balustrade. 3 storeys plus basement. Arched openings to ground storey with order of attached Doric columns. 5 windows wide, ends set forward as wings with high pediments broken into by arched second-floor windows. Behind this front is a small block 2 bays deep attached at north-east corner to the main sorting office, 325 x 185 feet, of three main storeys above ground, with loading platforms and glazed bays at west and east end, and bridges on north side and on east side connecting the sorting office with post office facing King Edward Street (q.v.). The whole of the structure of the buildiings is built in reinforced concrete, using the Hennebique system as licensed to L. G. Mouchel and Partners. The main sorting offices have regularly spaced columns at approximately 35-foot centres in either direction, connected by shallow reinforced concrete arches running north-south and bearing subsidiary joists running east-west. The external walls of the sorting office other than those facing Newgate Street are non-load-bearing and are faced in roughcast. Original windows survive on the east and part of the north fronts of the sorting office, but have been replaced on the south and west side, where the walls have been rendered and planted. The building is important in the development of reinforced concrete architecture in Britain. See also King Edward Street (west side) with which this building forms a group.
Listing NGR: TQ3189381388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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