FORMER POST OFFICE

FORMER POST OFFICE, 84, UNION STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218372
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: FORMER POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: FORMER POST OFFICE, 84, UNION STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218372
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: FORMER POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER POST OFFICE, 84, UNION 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:: FORMER POST OFFICE, 84, UNION STREET

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

District:: Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 92819 04885

Details

OLDHAM

SD9204NE UNION STREET 780-1/6/78 (South side) No.84 Former Post Office

II

Post Office, now in use as library and offices. 1877. Brick with stone dressings and shallow pitched Welsh slate roof. Neo-classical style. 2-storeyed, 7-window range with central entrance in moulded architrave and 2-pane sash windows, also with moulded architraves and set between pilasters. Additional doorway to right now disused. Cornice over ground floor forms sill band of upper 2-pane sash windows in moulded architraves with entablatures. Stone cornice and parapet, stepped over end and central bays, with shallow pediment over blind panel in centre. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, Nikolaus: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).

Listing NGR: SD9281904885

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Legacy System number:: 388943
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)

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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.