Description

CAMDEN

TQ2985SW LEIGHTON ROAD
798-1/43/1024 (South side)
13/02/95 No.30
Kentish Town Sorting Office
(Formerly Listed as:
LEIGHTON ROAD
No.30
(former Royal Mail sorting office -
incl. attached railings))

GV II

Royal Mail sorting office. Dated 1903. Red brick with stone
dressings. Hipped slated roof with central tall panelled brick
chimney-stack set above a segmental pediment and flanked by
brick pediments with ball finials above Diocletian windows
with keystones. Symmetrical design. Lower single storey facade
projects forward beneath the Diocletian windows to give a
segmental-arched entrance with pilasters having enriched
capitals and frieze inscribed "Postmens Office", above which a
pediment with carved royal coat of arms; original part-glazed
double doors. Left hand bay with 2 sashes, upper halves with
glazing bars; right hand bay with 3 smaller sashes, upper
halves with glazing bars. Both bays with brick parapets,
corresponding to doorway frieze, and having central segmental
headed plaques carved with royal GR monograms. Original
rainwater head and pipe to left hand bay.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ2916985163

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086691

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings