Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
87034
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/2005
Date of Amendment
30/11/2005
Name of Property
The Post Office
Address
12 Quay Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Haverfordwest
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Easting
195489
Northing
215575
Street Side
NE
Location
Situated prominently on NE side of street some 85m S of its junction with High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Post Office, built in 1934-6 for the GPO, probably designed by architects in the Office of Works, an example of the high quality neo-Georgian post offices of the inter-war period. The post office replaced the large building at No 8 High St built in 1879, a previous post office, adjacent to No 10 High St, was demolished in 1891.
Exterior
Post Office, Bath stone ashlar with slate hipped roof and large painted timber lantern on roof. Roof is set back with concealed gutter above cornice. Lantern is square with an arched latticed opening each side with impost and key blocks, entablature with cornice and blocking course under steep concave-sided copper pyramid roof with vane. Ashlar chimney at rear left corner, tall and thin with cornice.
Two-storey, five-bay front with moulded plinth and ashlar moulded dentil cornice. Thick glazing bars to sash windows, 16-pane to first floor, large 30-pane to ground floor, with ashlar sills. Centre double panelled doors with brass fittings, in fine pedimented carved doorcase with attached Roman Doric columns, entablature blocks with triglyphs, carrying an open pediment with flat mutules over finely-carved royal arms. Cornice is continued around the two end walls over three 12-pane first floor sashes, and a downpipe with ornamental hopper-head. Single storey wings to left and right with parapet and moulded coping, and unmoulded plinth. Left wing has three 16-pane sashes, right wing has single arched window with triple keystone, the jambs carried down to the plinth, and three similar windows on S end wall. The parapet on this S wing is subtly stepped back under the moulded coping. Rear wall is pebbledashed and behind is a lower sorting-room, pebbledashed with hipped slate roof and hipped glazed lantern.
Interior
Interior altered.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a finely designed neo-Georgian post office in Bath stone.
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