Description

1. SWINBURNE STREET
5099
Borough Engineering
NZ 2563 5/114 Services Department (III)

II
GV
2.
The former Post Office. 1873-5. Tooled stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof
with corniced stone chimneys. Simple building with some classical detail. Three
storeys (the top one seems to be an addition) five bays and three-bay West return
to Swinburne Place. Rusticated ground floor up to impost string of round-arched
recesses framing round-headed windows and door at right. Moulded plinth. Pilasters
rest on ground floor entablature, frame round-arched first floor windows with
archivolts and key blocks, and support a cornice. Segment arched second floor
windows in raised surrounds. All windows sashes. Moulded and modillioned eaves
cornice. Included partly as one of the municipal group of buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ2550163404

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540777

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