POST OFFICE

POST OFFICE, 1-3, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1215128
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE, 1-3, BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1215128
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: POST OFFICE, 1-3, BRIDGE STREET

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:: POST OFFICE, 1-3, BRIDGE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisbech
National Grid Reference:: TF 46065 09604

Details

WISBECH BRIDGE STREET TF 4609 (South Side) 6/6 (Nos. 1-3 (consec) (Post Office) GV II

Post Office built in 1887 in 'French, Mediaeval Domestic Style'. Red brick with limestone dressings; slate roof. Main entrance facade to east with wing to west of four 'bays'. Two storeys and attic. Parapet gables with end stacks, each with linked circular limestone shafts. Three tall facade gabled attic windows with flanking slender buttresses and finials. Stone coped parapet and cornice, cill band at first floor and stone plinth. Four, first floor, and three gound floor windows (central pairs linked), with flat arched, roll-moulded stone architraves rounded at corners. Entrance to left hand, half- glazed door in stone, crocketed arched doorway linked at impost to windows by stone band. Two storey wing has two large 'fanned' ground floor windows with stone key blocks and four first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars, and parapet. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.192, 1898. Peckover, P.H. photographic collection, p.l28, W. & F. Mus, 1931.

Listing NGR: TF4606509604

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 48202
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 192

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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.