penarth post office
41 Albert Road
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Architect
Albert Myers Year 1936 Listed building status Grade II Archive sources British Postal Museum and Archive Penarth Portfolio File (photograph) Selected bibliographical references Osley, Julian. Built for Service: Post Office Architecture. London: British Postal Museum and Archive, 2010. p. 63-66 History Closed: 1980s Current use: Restaurant ("Jaflon") |
Building description
Extract from an Office of Works letter dated 16 December 1936
The general walling is rendered in cream colour and has a scraped finish. The stone to coping is "Fishpounds [sic] Blue pennant" and to window heads and cills reconstructed blue pennant which is of a blue grey colour. The plinth is a "green and black" reconstructed "Impervious" polished granite. Entrance doors are in polished Nigerian mahogany. Sashes, steel painted a pale blue and the posting box, notice frames and lamps in "Bronze".
The general walling is rendered in cream colour and has a scraped finish. The stone to coping is "Fishpounds [sic] Blue pennant" and to window heads and cills reconstructed blue pennant which is of a blue grey colour. The plinth is a "green and black" reconstructed "Impervious" polished granite. Entrance doors are in polished Nigerian mahogany. Sashes, steel painted a pale blue and the posting box, notice frames and lamps in "Bronze".