Houghton-le-Spring, Newbottle Street, post office

HER Number:
16008

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, Newbottle Street, post office

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Postal System Structure

Site Type: Specific:
Post Office

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Houghton's first post office was at No. 3 Sunderland Street from 1824. Around 1918 it moved to No. 48 Newbottle Street. In 1959 a new purpose-built post office was built at No. 12 Newbottle Street costing £35,000. The site had previously been occupied by a telephone exchange. Before that it had housed a shed for the horse-driven ambulance for Dene House Isolation Hospital. The new post office was built with yellow Lumley bricks from Fence Houses Brickworks and had pre-cast concrete floors. It had a concrete strong room and a telegraph room. The roof was layers of plywood, soft wood and felt.

Easting:
3405

Northing:
4995

Grid Reference:
NZ34054995

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
www.houghtonlespring.org.uk