POST OFFICE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202740
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1990
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 36 AND 38, WHEELGATE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 36 AND 38, WHEELGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- North Yorkshire
- District:
- Ryedale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Malton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 78691 71795
Details
MALTON
SE780715 WHEELGATE
801-1/8/152 (East side)
12/11/90 Nos.36 AND 38
Post Office
GV II
Post Office. c1910. Red brick in Flemish bond on ashlar
plinth, with orange-red brick quoin strips and dressings;
ashlar doorcase with timber hood; timber eaves cornice; coped
gables and brick end and centre stacks to tiled mansard roof.
Domestic Revival style. 2-storeys-and-attic; 5-window front.
Central sunk-panel double doors with patterned overlight, in
fasciated architrave beneath modillioned flat hood projecting
boldly on massive foliate console brackets. To right,
segment-arched tripartite sash window, centre light interruped
by stepped-up panel incorporating segment-headed brass posting
box. To left, two 12-pane sash windows beneath keyed segmental
arches. First-floor windows are 12-pane sashes with stone
sills and aprons. Moulded projecting eaves cornice with
mutules, and original rainwater goods at each end. In attic,
flat-topped dormers at each end flank 3 gabled dormers, each
with unequal 9-pane sash window beneath segmental pediment.
INTERIOR: lobby entrance doors half-glazed and panelled with
brass fittings. Postal hall to right, though divided by later
inserted counter, retains original directory racks and moulded
dado rail: original counter, now closed-off, survives at rear.
Built-in brass letter box behind front window.
Half-cylindrical metallic waste bin to left of door. Mutule
cornice to 3-bay coffered ceiling with moulded beams. Post
Office offered for sale at time of List Review (1990).
Listing NGR: SE7869171795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389578
- 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.
End of official listing