General Post Office With Basement Railings Norwich Union House
GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375013
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- General Post Office With Basement Railings Norwich Union House
- Statutory Address:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375013
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- General Post Office With Basement Railings Norwich Union House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 10, QUEBEC 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:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE WITH BASEMENT RAILINGS, CITY SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 10, QUEBEC STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29864 33471
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE CITY SQUARE
714-1/77/109 (West side)
22/03/74 General Post Office with basement
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CITY SQUARE
The General Post Office)
GV II
Includes: No.10 Norwich Union House QUEBEC STREET.
Post Office premises. 1896. By Sir Henry Tanner. Ashlar, slate
and lead roofs; cast-iron railings. Classical style. Principal
facade to City Square has a wide central bay of 3 storeys and
attic, the ground floor rising through 2 storeys of the
flanking 4-storey, 3-bay ranges; all over basements. Bays 1,
3, 5 and 7 project slightly and are topped by a small pediment
flanked by octagonal domed turrets and tall corniced chimney
with arched links; between are semicircular pedimented gables
flanked with urns.
Ground floor centre: a shallow splayed Roman Doric arcade of 5
arches, original wood-framed round-arched windows carved with
Ionic columns; flanking entrances have paired Ionic columns
and pediments over supported on console brackets with carved
Classical figures holding writing instruments at sides. 1st
floor divided by Corinthian pilasters, the centre 4 attached
columns with sculpted draped figures representing Art and
Science between 2nd-floor windows; 1st-floor windows have
moulded architraves, segmental pediments and segmental bowed
balustered balconies; 2nd-floor windows plain rectangular with
flat pilasters between. Moulded cornices at each floor level;
modillion eaves cornice and parapet; 5 wooden pedimented
dormers. Tall slender clock tower centre, angle pilasters,
pediments, corner urns, octagonal domed cupola.
Left return, No.10 Quebec Street: plainer style, 3, 2, 3, 7, 3
round-arched windows to ground floor, the 3-window bays
slightly projecting with pedimented gables; central pedimented
dormer window flanked by corniced chimneys.
Right return, Infirmary Street: gable end and 1 bay of
original east wing remain; panelled door far right, attached
columns support pediment.
INTERIOR: Ionic columns with swags mirroring those outside.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to front, left and right
returns: panels with scrolls and flowers, urn finials.
Listing NGR: SE2986433471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465893
- 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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