British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL WHITBY STREET
NZ 5132 (east side).

11/135 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

Source: English Heritage

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