BROUGHTY FERRY POST OFFICE
218 Queen Street
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Architect: William Oldrieve Year: 1908 Listed building status: Category C(S) Archive sources British Postal Museum & Archive: POST 32/117 Selected bibliographical references Builder 6 Jun 1908, p. 673 Building News 14 Jun 1907, p. 819 Dundee Courier 12 Jun 1906, p. 4; 19 May 1908, p. 4 History Opened: 25 May 1908 Closed: c.1993 Current use: Public house Extended to a 2-storey building |
Building description
From: Dundee Courier 19 May 1908, p. 4
Monday next the community of Ferry enter into possession of the new Office, on which workmen have been engaged during the winter months. The Post Office occupies a central site in the burgh, and the premises are to be equipped in complete fashion, making the office one of the most up-to-date establishments of its size the country. Within recent years the requirements of the burgh in the direction of postal facilities have extended greatly, and last year the Department decided proceed with the erection of new buildings. A site convenient for all parts of the burgh was obtained at the junction of Fort Street and Queen Street, on the car route. The buildings which were designed in the Office Works, Edinburgh, while complete in regard to postal facilities, also form an architectural acquisition to the burgh. The design is a simple and dignified treatment of the Renaissance style suitable for a public office of the size required for Broughty Ferry. The public office is a spacious apartment. The chamber is 22 feet 6 inches long, and six compartments are provided for the conveience of persons writing telegrams, &c. This room is entered through swing-doors from a lobby, and is floored with red tiles with green tiled dado about 3 feet 6 inches high. The woodwork is stained and varnished teak and the ceiling, walls, and ornamental plasterwork is picked out in varying colour of distemper. To the side of the public office are situated the telegraph instrument, 16 feet by 12 feet, and telephone room, 12 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 6 inches. The sorting office, where the sorting and despatching of mails is carried on, is a large well-lighted , 38 feet long by 26 feet 6 inches broad, situated immediately to the rear the public office, and runs parallel Street to Fort Street. A spacious yard provided at the west side of the main buildings, and is paved with granolithic. The architectural stonework is from Millstone Meadow Quarry, near Inverkeithing. The floors generally are covered with wood block flooring, and the sanitary fittings and drainage throughout are of the most modern and approved type. The architect is Mr W. T. Oldrieve, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., His Majesty's Office of Works, Edinburgh. The contractor is Mr James Scott, Broughty Ferry, and the clerk of works Mr Robert Bland, of His Majesty’s Office of Works. Operations for the transference the postal traffic are already commenced, the telegraph wires being fixed up. Everything, it is anticipated, will in complete readiness for the new Post Office opened for service on Monday.
Monday next the community of Ferry enter into possession of the new Office, on which workmen have been engaged during the winter months. The Post Office occupies a central site in the burgh, and the premises are to be equipped in complete fashion, making the office one of the most up-to-date establishments of its size the country. Within recent years the requirements of the burgh in the direction of postal facilities have extended greatly, and last year the Department decided proceed with the erection of new buildings. A site convenient for all parts of the burgh was obtained at the junction of Fort Street and Queen Street, on the car route. The buildings which were designed in the Office Works, Edinburgh, while complete in regard to postal facilities, also form an architectural acquisition to the burgh. The design is a simple and dignified treatment of the Renaissance style suitable for a public office of the size required for Broughty Ferry. The public office is a spacious apartment. The chamber is 22 feet 6 inches long, and six compartments are provided for the conveience of persons writing telegrams, &c. This room is entered through swing-doors from a lobby, and is floored with red tiles with green tiled dado about 3 feet 6 inches high. The woodwork is stained and varnished teak and the ceiling, walls, and ornamental plasterwork is picked out in varying colour of distemper. To the side of the public office are situated the telegraph instrument, 16 feet by 12 feet, and telephone room, 12 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 6 inches. The sorting office, where the sorting and despatching of mails is carried on, is a large well-lighted , 38 feet long by 26 feet 6 inches broad, situated immediately to the rear the public office, and runs parallel Street to Fort Street. A spacious yard provided at the west side of the main buildings, and is paved with granolithic. The architectural stonework is from Millstone Meadow Quarry, near Inverkeithing. The floors generally are covered with wood block flooring, and the sanitary fittings and drainage throughout are of the most modern and approved type. The architect is Mr W. T. Oldrieve, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., His Majesty's Office of Works, Edinburgh. The contractor is Mr James Scott, Broughty Ferry, and the clerk of works Mr Robert Bland, of His Majesty’s Office of Works. Operations for the transference the postal traffic are already commenced, the telegraph wires being fixed up. Everything, it is anticipated, will in complete readiness for the new Post Office opened for service on Monday.
