LEIGH-ON-SEA POST OFFICE AND TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
Rectory Grove
Architect: David Dyke Year: c. 1927 Archive sources National Archives: WORK 13/955 Selected bibliographical references Architect & Building News 2 Sep 1927, p. 383 (illustration), p. 395; 8 Feb 1929, p. 217 (illustration) Brick Builder Oct 1927, p. 51 History Closed Telephone exchange remains in a much altered buillding |
Building description
From: Architect & Building News 2 Sep 1927, p. 395
This building is two storeys high throughout and has a frontage of 52ft to Rectory Grove and a depth of 115ft. The front portion of the ground floor provides accommodation for a sub-post office, comprising a public office, telegraph instrument room, and retiring rooms. The whole of the upper floor is allotted to the telephone exchange, and the rear portion of the ground floor is sub-divided into workrooms, stores,truck and cycle sheds for the use of the post office engineers. The walls are faced with dark red hand-made sand-faced bricks, with light red brick dressings. The plinth, entrance doorway, ground floor window key blocks, main cornice and parapet coping are constructed of artificial Portland stone. The roof is covered with hand-made tiles. The architect was Mr D.N. Dyke, A.R.I.B.A of H.M. Office of Works. The general contractors were Messrs. H. Lacey & Sons, Luton.
This building is two storeys high throughout and has a frontage of 52ft to Rectory Grove and a depth of 115ft. The front portion of the ground floor provides accommodation for a sub-post office, comprising a public office, telegraph instrument room, and retiring rooms. The whole of the upper floor is allotted to the telephone exchange, and the rear portion of the ground floor is sub-divided into workrooms, stores,truck and cycle sheds for the use of the post office engineers. The walls are faced with dark red hand-made sand-faced bricks, with light red brick dressings. The plinth, entrance doorway, ground floor window key blocks, main cornice and parapet coping are constructed of artificial Portland stone. The roof is covered with hand-made tiles. The architect was Mr D.N. Dyke, A.R.I.B.A of H.M. Office of Works. The general contractors were Messrs. H. Lacey & Sons, Luton.