General Post Office
GENERAL POST OFFICE, 22, LENDAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257470
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- General Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE, 22, LENDAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257470
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- General Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE, 22, LENDAL
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:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE, 22, LENDAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60133 51937
Details
YORK
SE6051NW LENDAL 1112-1/28/552 (South West side) No.22 General Post Office
GV II
Post office. Dated 1884; late C20 alteration. By H Tanner. Orange brick in Flemish bond on moulded plinth of sandstone ashlar; frontispiece, dressings and copings of ashlar; slate roof with terracotta cresting, brick panelled stacks and ogee-capped cupola with finials. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-bay range, two intermediate bays gabled; 2-storey crosswing to right, 3-storey crosswing to left, both gabled and projecting slightly; at left end, one 3-storey bay. Plinth incorporates blocked square-headed basement openings. Central 1-storey frontispiece framed in diagonally set buttresses with corbelled-out heads beneath fascia with 'POST OFFICE' carved in relief: original entrance, now blocked, in segment-headed moulded surround ornamented with Tudor flower bosses. Flanking windows and those on second floor are of 2 lights, intermediate windows on second floor rising into gables. Original rainwater goods have blind Gothick-arcaded hoppers on stone brackets. Ground floor of right crosswing treated as screen of ashlar with stepped-up hoodmould. Doorway has panelled double doors in moulded surround with 4-centred head and foliate spandrels, beneath carved ribbon with incised legend AD ERECTED 1884 and band of blind trefoiled panels. On either side are tall 2-light windows. First floor window is of 3 lights, beneath stopped hoodmould and segmental relieving arch. Left crosswing has ground floor windows of 2 and 3 cinquefoiled lights grouped beneath common hoodmould: on first floor, 3-light oriel with moulded sill and cornice between tall 1-light windows: on second floor, 5-light window beneath stopped hood. End left bay has panelled folding doors in square-headed hollow chamfered doorway with 4-centred arch on 2 orders of jamb shafts with moulded capitals and blind traceried spandrels. First and second floor windows are of 2 lights, first floor one taller. Windows are mullioned, some transomed, generally 1-pane sashes, in ashlar square-headed quoined surrounds with sloped sills. Full width moulded string and band beneath first floor windows. Moulded eaves coping continued across left crosswing and end bay as second floor string course. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE6013351937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463818
- 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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