CAMBRIDGE POST OFFICE AND TELEPHONE EXCHANGE (1934)
9-11 St Andrews Street
Architect: David Dyke Year: 1934 Archive sources British Postal Museum & Archive: POST 118/509 (photograph) Selected bibliographical references Builder 11 Jan 1935, p. 77 (illustrated), 107, 108 History Opened: 29 May 1934 Closed: 8 Jan 2011 Current use: Bank The previous post office (opened 12 Dec 1885) was located at Petty Cury Building description From: The Builder 11 Jan 1935, p. 108 " ... occupies the site of Nos. 9, 10 and 11, St. Andrew's-street, and extends through to Tibb's Row at the rear. The elevation to St. Andrew's-street is in the English Renaissance manner carried out in brick and stone. The ground floor is entirely of rusticated Portland stone, with three arched windows and square-headed doorways. Stone has also been used for dressing at upper floor. The brickwork is in 2-in. hand-made silver-grey bricks with bright-red dressings and arches. The roof is covered with hand-made sand-faced Spanish-type tiles. A deep cast-lead gutter ornamented with lion heads surmounts the upper cornice, and bronze has been used for the lettering, grilles over doorways, and the letter-box and stamp-vending machine surround. Following the usual practice of using local materials wherever possible, it is interesting to note that the whole of the brickwork, apart from the St. Andrew's-street facade, is of Cambridge white bricks, including specially made flat arches. Mr. D.N. Dyke, O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A. (H.M. Office of Works) is the architect. The builders were Messrs. A. Roberts & Co., Ltd. of Kensington. |