WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE

WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE, BLYTHE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390960
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-2004
List Entry Name:: WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE
Statutory Address:: WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE, BLYTHE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390960
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-2004
List Entry Name:: WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE, BLYTHE ROAD

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:: WEST KENSINGTON POST OFFICE AND DELIVERY OFFICE, BLYTHE ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hammersmith and Fulham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 24181 79035

Details

333/0/10086 BLYTHE ROAD 05-AUG-04 West Kensington Post Office and Delive ry Office

II Post Office and Delivery Office. 1903-4. Office of Works designs prepared under (Sir) Henry Tanner. Orange-red brick, Portland-stone dressings. Picturesque grouping in one and two storeys hugging the frontage of an irregular corner site in a classical ('Wrenaissance') style. Delivery Office a long shed with offices at its short north end. Three-bay two-storey north elevation symmetrical around a central carriage arch and five-light bowed oriel window. Post Office attached to east is a flat-roofed single-storey block with a basement. East front loosely eight bays, breaking forward twice to central entrance to public hall, full-height arch flanked by paired angle pilasters. From south part of Delivery Office a polygonal eastwards projection has a secondary entrance and pedimented windows, above which twin pedimented half dormers flank a tall ornamental chimney with pilasters and a cornice, a particularly engaging feature. Canted bay to road from south end of Delivery Office shed. Two further bays to south have lower roofline. West Kensington Post Office and Delivery Office were built with and to serve the former Post Office Savings Bank Headquarters (Blythe House, q.v.), that from its opening in 1903 received and despatched a ton of post (about 100,000 letters) every working day. In their own right they are a good example of their type, and also have strong group value.

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Legacy System number:: 491220
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.