Description

Early 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay, classically-detailed post office (formerly Hamilton Herald building). Red ashlar, channelled angle pilasters to 1st floor, steeply-pitched green slate roof, pyramidal to left and right with weathervane and spike finials. Plain frieze to 2nd floor with mannered curvilinear decorative panels to outer bays; wallhead frieze with decorative corbals; balustraded parapet with angle dies to outer bays; architraved windows with plate glass sahs and case frames. FRONT ELEVATION: slightly asymmetrical. Modern front to ground floor; 4-light canted window to 1st floor centre, single window to 1st floor with pilastered architrave and pediment rising through wallhead; slightly advanced bays to left and right, bipartite window to 1st and 2nd floor left, single window to 1st and 2nd floor right. INTERIOR: First world War marble memorial panel to members of Hamilton Post Office.

Statement of Interest

The illustratiuon in LANARKSHIRE ILLUSTRATED shows the building as the Hamilton Herald building.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17851235

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)