Wingham Post Office, Wynter St, Wingham, NSW, Australia
S 31° 52.217 E 152° 22.552
56J E 440963 N 6473772
Constructed in 1884, this has been the centre of Postal Services in Wingham for over 130 years. It is well positioned, directly opposite the iconic Town Green - Central Park.
Waymark Code: WMYR3M
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 07/14/2018
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From the Wikipedia article:
"Wingham Post Office is a two-storey face and painted brick Victorian Regency building, with a Federation Filigree influenced first-floor verandah, and Federation Free Style infill and addition to the ground floor. It was originally a symmetrical building, and has a tan coloured hipped corrugated steel roof. The southern single-storey addition has a shallow hipped corrugated steel roof and the rear outbuildings are hipped or skillion, excepting the early toilet structure to the rear with a narrow gabled roof. Three chimneys punctuate the roof line; two corbelled, rendered and painted chimneys to the two-storey section north and west ridge lines, and one corbelled face brick chimney to the rear kitchen."
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From the Australian Heritage Database link of below:
"A pre-1900 photograph shows the building as originally designed, with two-storeys, a simple rectangular cube volume, post office below and quarters mostly above, with a living and dining room at the rear ground floor behind the post office, and services in the outbuildings behind. The verandah and balcony balustrade and frieze were all in cast-iron lace, and framed with cast-iron posts. The first floor verandah was added in 1890 (NSW Heritage Database). The upper verandah roof is separate from the main roof, and there are two heavily proportioned chimneys with vaulted vents projecting to the rear of the main roof hip. The roof has boxed eaves and a cladding in corrugated galvanised iron, and this extended to the balcony roof. The three front openings and the side windows were arched, as were all first floor windows apart from one on the rear (east) side at the centre. On the first floor these all had thick mouldings where the ground floor front arches were left plain. The walling is in English-bond face brick, and the verandah floor may have been concreted in the 1910 changes and is finished in asphalt to make it waterproof, as is common in post offices of this composite type. The ground floor loading door was the right (south side), distinct from a smaller central window above the PO boxes with two panes in a simple arch. The quarter’s door is located on the (north) side at the front and is under a separate porch. Two panels in the front walling may have been the outward letter-drop. The building sat in a yard flanking it on both sides and framed with a picket fence. The upper floor window detailing, the roof form and verandah remain intact from this phase; the soffit is boarded."
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Address: Wynter Street, Wingham, NSW, 2429, Australia
Visited: 1424, Saturday, 25 October, 2014
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