Post Office - Bank Street, Maidstone, UK
N 51° 16.400 E 000° 31.338
31U E 327175 N 5683137
The post office, in Bank Street in Maidstone, is housed in a listed building. The post office is on the south east side of Bank Street opposite Maidstone Town Hall.
Waymark Code: WMRD6F
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/12/2016
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The building, that has been used for several businesses, is Grade II listed with the entry at the Historic England website telling us:
Formerly insurance office, now building society offices. Built in 1913 as the district office of Prudential Assurance Comnpany, possibly by Paul Waterhouse who carried out many commissions for this company. Tudor style. Upper floors timberframed with plaster infill, ground floor of Portland stone. Plaintiled roof with brick chimneystack. Two storeys and attics; two windows. Upper floors have close-studding with plastered infill. Two projecting gables with decorated carved bargeboards and elaborate carved bressumer. Each gable has two paired arched windows with leaded lights with lozenge pattern below. First floor has two oriel windows with three mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights and carved bases. Decorative central rainwaterhead with quatrefoil motif. Four ogee-shaped stone niches with statues of Kentish worthies under four-centred wooden arches with blank shields and foliate moulding to spandrels. These are (right to left) Archbishop Courtenay, Caxton, ?Sir Christopher Marlowe and Lord Avebury. Ground floor has stone shopfront with carved stone bosses, pilasters, two oak framed windows and two doorcases with rectangular fanlights and arched doorcases. Right side plank doorcase has studded door.
INTERIOR: Ground floor has square ribbed ceiling with plastered vine motifs. Right side staircase has moulded balusters and newel post with panelling below.
Included as a good and complete example of an insurance office in this unusual arts and crafts style.
The post offices opening hours are listed as:
Monday: 09:00-17:30
Tuesday: 09:30-17:30
Wednesday: 09:00-17:30
Thursday: 09:00-17:30
Friday: 09:00-17:30
Saturday: 09:00-12:30