BROADWAY POST OFFICE
25 High Street
Architects: Dawber & Whitwell Year: 1899 Listed building status: Grade II Selected bibliographical references Builder 3 Jun 1899, p. 548, 549 (illustration) Worcestershire Chronicle 10 Jun 1899, p. 5 History Closed Current use: Retail premises The post office "was built in 1899 and designed by Guy Dawber. Around 1900 the Post Office did not have its own architect's department, and its premises were usually designed by the government's Office of Works. The Post Office though the results were often mean an characterless, and looked for opportunities to employ outside architects. In Broadway they employed the architect who had first drawn the Cotswold vernacular to the profession's attention, and were rewarded with a design which was both distinctive and in keeping with the High Street". - Alan Crawford in his Arts and Crafts Walks in Broadway and Chipping Camden (Chipping Camden: Guild of Handicraft Trust, 2002. |