Former Gpo Sorting Office
FORMER GPO SORTING OFFICE, 13 AND 17, WHITBY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263125
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gpo Sorting Office
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GPO SORTING OFFICE, 13 AND 17, WHITBY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263125
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gpo Sorting Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GPO SORTING OFFICE, 13 AND 17, WHITBY STREET
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:
- FORMER GPO SORTING OFFICE, 13 AND 17, WHITBY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 51234 32521
Details
NZ 5132
11/135
HARTLEPOOL,
WHITBY STREET (east side),
Nos. 13 and 17 (Former G.P.O. Sorting Office)
(Formerly listed as Nos, 13 and 17 (G.P.O. Sorting Office))
II
General Post Office, now a sorting office. 1898/1900; by Henry Tanner (London). Red brick with buff terracotta and granite dressings. Graduated Lakeland slate roof has 2 stacks. Northern Renaissance style. 2 storeys and attic; 5 bays, divided and bounded by pilasters, those on ground floor brick with terracotta bands, those above quasi-Ionic in terracotta. Roll-moulded plinth. Central panelled double door in granite architrave between rusticated terracotta Ionic engaged columns. Triple overlight with Jacobean detail under console bracketed serpentine pediment with crown and foliage in tympanum. Flanking round-arched windows with pilasters, architraves, patterned spandrels and keystones. 3 grouped windows in Art Nouveau architraves in outer bays. Ground-floor entablature and blocking course. First-floor windows in rusticated architraves with friezes and egg-and-dart cornices, tripartite with central keys and pediments in outer bays. Top modillion cornice and balustraded parapet in front of 3 pedimented dormers in centre bays; outer bays have solid parapets with vase end finials and Diocletian windows in quasi-Corinthian entablatures under scrolled segmental pediments. Returns in similar style with elaborate panelled and carved chimneys. One-storey rear sorting office section.
Listing NGR: NZ5123432521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433125
- 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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