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Latitude: 55.867 / 55°52'1"N
Longitude: -3.9822 / 3°58'55"W
OS Eastings: 276056
OS Northings: 665532
OS Grid: NS760655
Mapcode National: GBR 00ML.NP
Mapcode Global: WH4QB.SSXN
Plus Code: 9C7RV289+Q4
Entry Name: Post Office, 14 Anderson Street, Airdrie
Listing Name: 14 Anderson Street
Listing Date: 21 March 2002
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395965
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48540
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395965
Location: Airdrie
County: North Lanarkshire
Town: Airdrie
Electoral Ward: Airdrie Central
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Post office
W M Robertson, 1905. 2-storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan, symmetrical, classical office block with curved corner bay balustraded between outer pediments, bowed to W. Red ashlar sandstone. Base course, eaves course, mutuled cornice. Chamfered margins and moulded projecting cills to openings.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5-bay; semicircular-arched windows to 3 centre bays at ground floor with projecting keystones, square-headed windows to upper floor with consoled cills. Symmetrical, slightly advanced outer bays; consoled segmental arch pediments breaking eaves to coped parapets. Consoled canopy to entrance to outer left bay, 2-leaf timber panelled door, window to outer right bay. Balustrade over central bays. Bowed corner bay to left return; stone mullioned bipartite stair window to centre.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 2001.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: obscured by abutting building.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind.
Predominantly 12-pane sash and case windows with 9-pane grid pattern below arch-heads of principal windows. Low, double pitched roof, grey slates, lead flashing. Coped stacks to sides.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
Built as Airdrie Post Office. Robrtson designed numerous buildings for the Post Office.
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