POST-OCCUPANCY RE-USE

Many of the buildings vacated by the Post Office have survived and been given extended lives by being converted (wholly or partly to other uses. The upper floors of many of these buildings have been converted into residential accommodation for purchase or rent. The most common ground floor conversions are to public houses, restaurants and retail spaces.

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​Architects' offices

• Wimbledon Post Office

​Archives

• Middlesbrough Post Office
• Oldham Post and Telegraph Office

​Art galleries

• Gateshead Post Office
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne Post Office

​​Arts centres

• Ventnor Post Office

​Auctioneers' offices

• West Kensington Post Office

​Banks and building societies

• Bishop's Stortford Post Office
• Bude Post Office (11 The Strand)(1902)
• Cambridge Post Office and Telephone Exchange (1934)
• Chelmsford Post Office (1908)
• Hastings Post Office (1 Queens Road)
• Henley-on-Thames Post Office (1895)
• Inverness Post Office (1843)
• Ipswich Post Office
• Minehead Post Office (1925)(Wellington Square)
• Rushden Post Office (c.1903)
• Scarborough Post Office  (1881)
• Sheffield Post Office (1875)
• Troon Post Office (1901)
• Yeovil Post Office  (1932)

​Barber shops

• Beaconsfield Post Office (shared use)

​Beauty salons

• Fraserburgh Post Office (1907)
• Lutterworth Post Office (27 High Street)
• Morden Post Office (1957)

​Bookmakers

• Anstruther Post Office
• Barnoldswick Post Office
• Bideford Post Office (1886)
• Carshalton (400 Green Wrythe Lane) Post Office
• Durham Post Office (c.1880)(Saddler Street)
• London Gerrard Street Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Melton Mowbrary Post Office
• Newport Pagnell Post Office
• Plympton Post Office (1971)(64 Ridgeway)
• Porthcawl Post Office (86 John Street)
• Sandy Post Office,  Bedfordshire
• Selkirk Post Office
• Stowmarket Post Office
• Workington Post Office

​Bridal wear shops

• Elm Park Post Office, Hornchurch

​Business centres

• Grays Post Office

​Cafes and tea rooms

• Altrincham Post Office (1899)
• Dawlish Post Office (Brunswick Place) (1959)
• Yeadon Post Office (1957)

​Careers advice centres

• Long Eaton Post Office
• Warrington Post Office (c. 1875)

​Children's soft play activity centres

• Bury Post Office

​Children's centres

• Hyde Post Office

​Churches

• Beckenham Post Office (shared use)
• Brixham Post Office

​​Cinemas

• Colchester Post Office
• London Northern District Post Office (1911-1941)

​Citzens advice bureaux

• Annan Post Office

​Clubs

• Barnstaple Post Office (1862)
• Bedford Post Office
• Burton-on-Trent Post Office (1877)
• Chipping Norton Post Office and Telephone Exchange

​Coffee shops

• Bishop's Stortford Post Office (1921)
• Bourne Post Office
• Colchester Post Office
• Dorchester Post Office
• Frome Post Office
• Kentish Town Post Office and Telephone Exchange

​​Community centres

• Bow Sorting Office
• Tottenham Sorting Office

Community support offices

• Rhayader Post Office

Conference venues

• London South Eastern District Post Office

Crown courts

• Bristol Post Office (1868-1909)

Council offices

• Burntisland Post Office
• Craven Arms Post Office
• Wrexham Post Office

Cultural centres

• Bradford Post Office

Dance studios

• Goole Post Office
• Herne Hill Sorting Office

Dental surgeries

• Alexandria Post Office
• Bexley Post Office
• Sutton Coldfield Post Office (1909)

Doctors' surgeries

• Dagenham Wood Lane Post Office (1954)

Estate agencies

• Dartmouth Post Office (1908)
• Retford Post Office
• South Tottenham Post Office
• ​West Hampstead Post Office (128-130 West End Lane)
• Weybridge Post Office

Factories

• Smethwick Post Office (1890)

Fitness centres

• ​Hornsey Sorting Office

​​Funeral directors

• Gorleston-on-Sea Post Office

Guesthouses

• Hythe Post Office, Kent

Hairdressing salons

• Fleet Post Office
• Flint Post Office
• Ivybridge Post Office (50 Fore Street)
• Ripon Post Office (22-23 North Street)
• Twyford Post Office

Health and medical care facilities

• Dursley Post Office
• ​​​​Hayes Post Office
• Kentish Town Sorting Office 

Heritage centres

• Gainsborough Post Office (1910)
• Methil Post Office

Hostels

• Portree Post Office

Hotels and guest houses

• Clitheroe Post Office
• Hythe Post Office
• Kirkcaldy Post Office
• Preston Post Office (1903)

Job centres

• Braintree Post Office and Telephone Exchange

Kingdom halls

• Belper Post Office
• South Tottenham Sorting Office
• Sudbury Post Office (1911)

Libraries

• Greenock Post Office (c.1881)
• Redruth Post Office 
• Saffron Walden Post Office (1848)

Mixed use

• Barnes Sorting Office
• Erith Post Office
• Herne Bay Post Office
• Hull Post Office (1909)
• London North Western District Post Office

Money lending outlets

• Coventry Post Office (1902)

Mosques

• Walthamstow Sorting Office (1903)
• Wolverton Post Office (1938)

Motor car parts stores

• West Drayton Post Office

Museums

• Kirriemuir Post Office (1896-1914)
• Turriff Post Office (1899)

Nightclubs

• Bangor Post Office
• Corby Post Office (Rockingham Road)
• Derby Post Office
• Ripon Post Office
• Swansea Post Office
• West Hartlepool Post Office 

Office and business accommodation

• Ardrossan Post Office
• Atherstone Post Office (c. 1914)
• Banff Post Office
• Barnstaple Post Office (1902)
• Barrow-in-Furness Post Office (1891)
• Birkenhead Post Office
• Birmingham Post Office (1890)
• Borehamwood Post Office
• Brentwood Post Office (1941)
• Cardiff Post Office (1896)
• Bristol Post Office (1746)
• Burnley Post Office (1879)
• Castleford Post Office (1901)
• Cleethorpes Post Office (1907)
• Congleton Post Office
• Colne Post Office
• Craven Arms Post Office
• Edinburgh Post Office (1866)
• Egham Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Falkirk Post Office (1894)
• Grays Post Office
• Hatfield Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Herne Bay Post Office
• Lampeter Post Office
• Letchworth Post Office
• London Greenwich Sorting Office
• London Highgate Sorting Office
• Liverpool Northern District Post Office
• London (GPO King Edward Building)
• London (GPO North)
• London South Western District Post Office
• London West Central District Post Office (1884)
• Luton Post Office (c.1923)
• Lutterworth Post Office (1960)
• Maidstone Post Office (1871)
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne Neville Street Branch Post Office (Pink Lane)(1885)
• North Shields Post Office (1890)
• Nottingham Post Office (1868)
• Nottingham Post Office (1898)
• Rotherham Post Office (1907)
• Saxmundham Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Stratford Post Office
• Warrington Post Office (c.1875)
• Warwick Post Office
• Winchmore Hill Sorting Office (1905)
• Worcester Station Sorting Office (1935)

​Opticians​

• Addlestone Post Office (c.1966)
• Braintree Post Office (1896)

Pharmacies

• Carshalton Post Office (1957)
• Oldbury Post Office

Police stations

• Ashbourne Post Office
• Avonmouth Post Office and Telephone Exchange

Pregnancy advisory centres

• West Ealing Post Office (189 Uxbridge Road)

Public houses and bars

• Aberdare Post Office
• Abingdon Post Office (c.1894)
• Alnwick Post Office
• Banbury Post Office
• Bath Post Office (2 York Buildings, George Street)
• Beeston Post Office
• Bicester Post Office
• Blackburn Post Office
• Blyth Post Office (46-50 Bridge Street)(year unknown)
• Bolton  Post Office (1868)
• Bristol Fishponds Post Office
• Broughty Ferry Post Office (1908)
• Burslem Post Office (1937)(12 Wedgwood Street)
• Cannock Post Office (83 High Green)(1908)
• Cardiff The Hayes Post Office
• Carlisle Post Office (1863)
• Castleford Post Office
• Chatham Post Office
• Cheadle Hulme Post Office
• Eltham Post Office
• Farnworth Post Office
• Forest Hill Post Office, London SE23
• Gosforth Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Greenock Post Office
• Hawick Post Office (1892)(single-storey part)
• Huntingdon Post Office
• Ilkeston Post Office
• Kingswood Post Office, Bristol
• Leatherhead Post Office
• Leominster Post Office
• Leyland Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Lincoln Post Office (1906)
• London Seething Lane Post Office
• Liverpool Crosby Post Office (4 Crown Buildings)
• Llanelly Post Office
• Loughton Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Newark Post Office
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Post Office
• Northwich Post Office
• ​Norwood Sorting Office (32-33 Westow Street, London SE19)
• Paisley Post Office
• Pontypridd Post Office
• Reading Post Office
• Richmond (North Yorkshire) Post Office
• Rochdale Post Office
• Romford Post Office
• Ross-on-Wye Post Office
• Royston Post Office
• Sheffield West Street Post Office
• Southend Post Office
• St Neots Post Office
• Stevenage Post Office
• Stirling Post Office
• Stone Post Office
• Stroud Post Office
• Tamworth Post Office
• Tonbridge Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Twickenham Post Office
• Wallingford Post Office
• Wem Post Office
• Wick Post Office

Recording studios

• Creswell Post Office
• London Walworth Sorting Office

Recruitment agencies

• Basingstoke Post Office

Residential accommodation: apartments

• Aberdeen Post Office
• Barnsley Post Office (1882)
• Berwick Post Office (1906)
• ​Chester Station Sorting Office (1912)
• Combe Martin Post Office (1892)
• Durham Post Office and Telephone Exchange (c.1929)
• Edinburgh Post Office (1819)
• Forest Hill Sorting Office
• Headington Sorting Office
• Huddersfield Post Office (c.1875)
• Hull Post Office (1909)
• Kingussie Post Office
• Lee Green Sorting Office
• Leeds Post Office
• Leeds (Woodhouse Street) Post Office
• Isleworth Post Office
• Letchworth Post Office
• Liverpool Parcels Sorting Office
• Manchester Parcel Sorting Office
• Manchester Sorting Office (Newton Street) 
• Minehead Post Office (1934)
• Moreton-in-Marsh Post Office
• Newport (Shropshire) Post Office
• Normanton Post Office (1939)
• Nottingham Sorting Office (Huntingdon Street)
• Southampton Docks Post Office
• Southampton Post Office
• Sunderland Post Office
• Sutton-in-Ashfield Post Office
• Wangford Post Office, Suffolk

Residential accommodation: single family dwellings

• Aberdaron Post Office (1950)
• Coldstream Post Office (1898)
• Fishergate Post Office, York
• Headley (Hampshire) Post Office (1904)
• Limpsfield Post Office (1911)
• Stansted Mountfichet Post Office (1892)
• Warburton Post Office
• Worcester Park Post Office

Resource centres

• Burgess Hill Post Office

Restaurants 

• Banstead Post Office (1934)
• Batley Post Office (1906)
• Bexleyheath Post Office (157 Broadway)
• Blackpool Post Office (1877)
• Bournemouth Post Office (1896)
• Bradford-on-Avon Post Office
• Bromley Post Office (1897)
• Canterbury Post Office (1907)
• Cheadle Hulme Sorting Office
• Chislehurst Post Office (c. 1912)
• Dartmouth Post Office (1889)
• Falmouth Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Faringdon Post Office (1898)
• Halstead Post Office (1895)
• Harrow on the Hill Post Office (1860s?)
• Haslemere Post Office
• Hatch End Post Office
• Hawick Post Office (1892)(two-storey part)
• Hereford Post Office (1881)
• High Wycombe Post Office (1901)
• Hull Post Office (1877)
• Kew Gardens Post Office
• Knutsford Post Office
• Lee Green Post Office (c.1963)
• Leeds Post Office
• Levenshulme Post Office
• London Gloucester Road Branch Office
• London Queen Street (W1) Post Office
• London Seething Lane Branch Office
• Ludlow Post Office
• Lytham Post Office (1900)
• Margate Post Office (1910)
• Marlborough Post Office
• Mildenhall Post Office (1911)
• Northwood Post Office
• Oswestry Post Office (30 Church Street)
• Penarth Post Office
• Plymouth Post Office (1848)
• Plymouth Post Office (1957)
• Pocklington Post Office (1904)
• Port Sunlight Post Office (1891)
• Porth Post Office
• Redhill Post Office 
• Stafford Post Office
• St Andrews Post Office
• Stamford Post Office Delivery Office
• Stanmore Post Office
• Surbiton Post Office
• Tring Post Office
• Warrington Post Office (1908)
• Watford Post Office
• West Didsbury Post Office
• West Kirby Post Office
• Whetstone Post Office

Restaurants, take-away

• Alton Post Office (15A High Street)(1901)
• Carnforth Post Office
• Harlow London Road Post Office
• Norbury Post Office

Retail premises

• Aberdeen Post Office (1876)
• Alfreton Post Office (1901)
• Ashford Post Office (Surrey)
• Axminster Post Office (1908)
• Bakewell Post Office (shared use)
• Banchory Post Office (1910)
• Barnoldswick Post Office
• Bath Post Office (8 Broad Street)
• Bath Post Office (George Street)
• Bath Post Office (Northgate Street)(shared use)
• Birkenhead Charing Cross Post Office
• Boscombe Post Office
• Bridgend Post Office (1892)
• Brighton Post Office
• Broadway Post Office
• Calne Post Office
• Chelsea Post Office (1906)
• Cheltenham Post Office (1876-1987)
• Cleckheaton Post Office (1908)
• Darlington Post Office (19th c)
• Dorchester Post Office
• Dornoch Post Office (1933)
• East Ham Post Office (1914)
• ​East Molesey Post Office
• Ellesmere Port Post Office (Cromwell Road)
• Ellesmere Post Post Office (36 Marina Walk)
• Exeter Post Office (1850)
• Falmouth Post Office (1868)
• Fleet Post Office (1906)
• Glasgow Post Office (1878)
• Great Dunmow Post Office (1900)
• Grimsby Post Office (1910)
• Holt Post Office (1930s)
• Ilfracombe Post Office (1869)
• Inverness Post Office (1843)
• Leamington Spa Post Office (1870)
• Lewes Sorting Office (1930)
• Liskeard Post Office
• Liverpool Post Office
• Liverpool 165 Lodge Lane
• London EC1 Faringdon Road Post Office
• ​Lutterworth Post Office 
• Maldon Post Office (1907)
• Manchester St Thomas Street Post Office
• Newton Abbot Post Office
• Newport Post Office
• ​Norwood Post Office
• Peterhead Post Office (1910)
• Prestatyn Post Office (1915)
• Plympton Post Office (1971)(62 Ridgeway)
• Putney Post Office (1874)
• Richmond Post Office, Surrey
• Robin Hood's Bay Post Office (1904)
• Saffron Walden Post Office (c.1890)
• Southampton (57 London Road)
• Stevenage Post Office (1909)
• St Budeaux Post Office, Plymouth (89-91 Victoria Road)
• Stretford Post Office
• Sudbury Post Office (1886)
• Swanage Post Office (shared use)
• Thirsk Post Office
• Totnes Post Office
• Watford North Branch Post Office
• Whitby Post Office (1898)
• Winchester Post Office
• Yeovil Post Office (1902)

Royal Mail Delivery Offices
Included here are only examples where the Royal Mail Delivery Office has taken over the space formerly occupied by the public post office. It does not include those buildings where the public post office has not been used as a delivery office

• Aldershot Post Office
• Atherton Post Office
• Axminster Post Office
• Bakewell Post Office
• Barrow-in-Furness Post Office
• Beaconsfield Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Beccles Post Office
• Berwick Post Office
• Bexley Post Office
• Billericay Post Office
• Billingshurst Post Office
• Bingley Post Office
• Birmingham Erdington Post Office
• Bodmin Post Office
• Bordon Camp Delivery Office
• Brandon Post Office
• Brechin Post Office (1910)
• Bridgnorth Post Office
• Bridport Post Office
• Brigg Post Office
• Broadstairs Post Office
• Buckie Post Office
• Buckingham Post Office
• Budleigh Salterton Post Office
• Builth Wells Post Office (until  2013)
• Camborne Post Office (1900)
• Chepstow Post Office
• Cinderford Post Office
• Clevedon Post Office
• Coleshill Post Office
• Cotteridge Post Office
• Cromer Post Office
• Crowborough Post OfficeCullompton Post Office
• Dagenham Post Office
• Deal Post Office
• Dingwall Post Office
• Downham Market Post Office
• Droylsden Post Office
• Dumfries Post Office (1926)
• East Grinstead Post Office
• Eastbourne Post Office
• Edenbridge Post Office
• Emsworth Post Office
• Edinburgh Windsor Place Post Office
• Farnborough North Camp Post Office
• Folkestone Post OfficeForest Gate Post Office
• Formby Post Office
• Frinton-on-Sea Post Office
• Gainsborough Post Office
• Gillingham Post Office, Dorset
• Glossop Post Office
• Goring-on-Thames Post Office
• Gravesend Post Office 
• Great Torrington Post Office
• Hailsham Post Office (1909)
• Halstead Post Office (1959)
• Hayle Post Office
• Heathfield Post Office
• Heaton Post Office, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Henley-on-Thames Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• High Wycombe Post Office (1934)
• Hinckley Post Office
• Hockley Hill Post Office, Birmingham
• Holbeach Post Office
• Horley Post Office
• Hoylake Post Office
• Hungerford Post Office
• Kelso Post Office
• ​Liphook Post Office
• ​Llandrindod Wells Post Office
• Llanrwst Post Office (Station Road)
• Lochgelly Post Office
• Louth Post Office
• Luton Post Office (1958)
• Malton Post Office
• Maybole Post Office
• March Post Office
• Midhurst Post Office
• Montrose Post Office
• Morpeth Post Office (18 Oldgate)
• Musselburgh Post Office
• New Milton Post Office
• North Berwick Post Office (1906)
• Northfield (Birmingham) Post Office
• Notting Hill Post Office
• Oban Post Office
• Petworth Post Office
• Rawtenstall Post Office
• Rayleigh Post Office
• Rochester Post Office
• Rothesay Post Office
• Rugeley Post Office
• Saffron Walden Post Office (1919)
• Sandwich Post Office
• Saxmundham Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• ​Seaham Post Office
• South Molton Post Office
• St Anne's-on-Sea Post Office and Telephone Exchange
• Southall Post Office
• Stoke-on-Trent (Leek Road)
• Stourbridge Post Office
• Stowmarket Post Office
• Teddington Post Office
• Wellington Post Office
• Widnes Post Office
• Wigston Post Office
• Wilmslow Post Office
• Wimborne Minster Post Office
• Winslow Post Office
• Witham Post Office
• Woodbridge Post Office
• Woodford Green Post Office

Sikh temples

• Tooting Sorting Office

Spas

• Tunbridge Wells Post Office

Supermarkets

• Aldeburgh Post Office
• Berkhampted Post Office (1958)
• Boscombe Post Office
• Hull Jameson Street Post Office
• London Great Portland Street Post Office
• London West Kensington 88-90 North End Road Post Office
• Ruislip Post Office
• Shrewsbury Post Office (27 Pride Hill)
• Worcester Post Office

Telephone exchanges

• Amersham Post Office and Telephone Exchange

Theatres

• North Kensington Sorting Office

Town halls

• Pershore Post Office
• Stonehouse Post Office, Stroud

Training centres

• Hanley Post Office, Stoke-on-Trent

Veterinary clinics

• Friern Barnet Post Office

Youth centres

• Canvey Island Post Office
• Rushden Post Office
• Stockton-on-Tees Post Office