Survey Data
Reg No
15317048
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Post office
Date
1870 - 1900
Coordinates
218769, 238307
Date Recorded
02/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced five-bay single-storey double-height former post office, built c.1885. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging bracketed eaves (supported on paired timber brackets), decorative ridge cresting and with a moulded red brick chimneystack to either end (east and west). Chimneystack to the west end shared with adjacent property (15317047). channelled rendered finish to walls up to window lintel level with ruled-and-line rendered finish over, separated by a moulded stucco/render string course. Vermiculated banded quoins to east side. Raised rendered lettering reading ‘POST OFFICE’, to centre of building above string course. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows. Round-headed doorcases to the centre and to the east end of main facade end of main façade (north) having timber panelled doors with spoke fanlights over. Road-fronted towards the centre of Moate.
Appraisal
An attractive late nineteenth-century post office, which retains its early character and form. This building was built to designs prepared by the Board of Works and appears to have been constructed as a part of a common building project with the building adjacent to the east (15317047) This fine post office retains much of its early fabric and makes a positive contribution to the streetscape towards the centre of Moate. Its style and form contrasts attractively with the mainly late-Georgian character of the streetscape to the east end of Moate, particularly in the New Town area to the northeast, and it is a worthy addition to the built heritage of the area.