FALMOUTH POST OFFICE AND TELEPHONE EXCHANGE (1931)
The Moor
Architects: Archibald Bulloch and Henry Seccombe Year: 1931 Archive sources British Postal Museum & Archive: POST 118/605 National Archives: WORK 13/1140 Selected bibliographical references Builder 12 Jan 1934, p. 61 (illustrated), p. 93 Western Morning News 25 May 1931, p. 3 History Opened: 23 May 1931 Closed: Jan 2007 Current use: Restaurant |
Building description
From: Western Morning News 25 May 1931, p. 3
... The new building has been designed to include the diversity of services common to a town of the size of Falmouth. The public office ... is in the centre of the east front, with the postmaster's and telegraph rooms adjoining. Behind is the sorting office, and on the upper floors are the telephone exchange and welfare rooms. The small square block next to the town hall contains the night telephone call office, and some subsidiary accommodation for transport. All the interior arrangements are up to date. Materials used for the exterior of the building are granite, rough-cast, and Delabole slates, all being from the county. The granite helps to give an appearance of solidity, and the roughcast on the upper part of the fronts is an adoption of local practice to prevent Atlantic weather from penetrating the walls, whilst the roof completes the Cornish tradition with its thick Delabole slates, not laid mechanically in one dull colour, but varied from pale buff to dark brown. The architects were Messrs. A. Bulloch and H. E. Seccombe, H.M. Office of Works.
... The new building has been designed to include the diversity of services common to a town of the size of Falmouth. The public office ... is in the centre of the east front, with the postmaster's and telegraph rooms adjoining. Behind is the sorting office, and on the upper floors are the telephone exchange and welfare rooms. The small square block next to the town hall contains the night telephone call office, and some subsidiary accommodation for transport. All the interior arrangements are up to date. Materials used for the exterior of the building are granite, rough-cast, and Delabole slates, all being from the county. The granite helps to give an appearance of solidity, and the roughcast on the upper part of the fronts is an adoption of local practice to prevent Atlantic weather from penetrating the walls, whilst the roof completes the Cornish tradition with its thick Delabole slates, not laid mechanically in one dull colour, but varied from pale buff to dark brown. The architects were Messrs. A. Bulloch and H. E. Seccombe, H.M. Office of Works.