Description

MARGATE TR 3570 NW CECIL SQUARE 1/339 Margate General Post Office II

Purpose built Post Office building. Built in 1910 in Neo-Classical style. Built of brick with Portland? stone dressings and slate roof. Cecil Square elevation is of 3 storeys and attics, 6 windows. Roof hipped to one end with 2 tall brick chimney stacks, metal weathervane and 5 flat roofed dormers. Elaborate stone balustrading with modillion cornice below. End window bays project slightly with giant Ionic pilasters between 1st and 2nd floors. 1st floor windows are 9 pane sashes with horns and shouldered architraves with wide keystones and aprons. 1st floor end windows are 12 paned sashes with horns. End windows have cornices with wide keystones. Centre windows have tall open pedimented hoods with elaborate keystones. Ground floor is rusticated and has 4 windows with top opening lights and 2 double doorcases with rectangular fan- lights. Elaborate stone scrolled shield at corner. Elevation to Union Crescent has 2 bays with similar treatment to the main front and a further part, the old sorting office, in similar materials but of 3 storeys and attics of lower eleva- tion. Attic storey has 3 curved pedimented headed dormers, there are 4 triple windows to the lower floors and the ground floor is rusticated.

Listing NGR: TR3545770854

External Links

• Wikidata Q26534663

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)