Architect: Office of Works (job architect unknown) Year: 1936 A modernist design, eschewing the familiar neo-Georgian tradition favoured by the post office architects, and one of handful of post offices to bear the Edward VIII cipher, here within the vertical window. Although no documentary evidence has been found to support this view, it is possible that Chester-le-Street Post Office was designed by Office of Works staff architect John Haswell, whose other work in the North of England in the 1930s include the post offices at Billingham, Normanton, Scunthorpe, and Seaham. |