BRIGHTON POST OFFICE
51 Ship Street
Year: 1849-c.1925 Listed building status: Grade II Archive sources British Postal Museum & Archive: POST 30/592, 91/1728-1533, 118/6250-6252 National Archives: WORK 13/78 Selected bibliographical references Brighton Gazette 8 Jun 1848, p. 1 (invitation to tender); 31 Aug 1848, p. 5 (work commenced) History Opened: 26 Mar 1849 Closed: 26 May 2007 The building history of the Brighton Post Office is complex. The part of the building currently occupied by a retail outlet ("Fatface") is the oldest part, dating from 1849. The post office was enlarged in c. 1898-1901 into an adjacent building according to plans drawn up by Henry Tanner, and this was itself was re-faced in c. 1925. From 1925 until its closure the enlargement replaced the 1849 building as the post office. Planning permission obtained in 2013 to convert the ground floor (i.e. public office) of this part of the building into a restaurant |