Building record 1451700000 - Post Office - Packhorse Road

The building at the corner of Marsham Way and Packhorse Road (now an estate agents) was built in 1907 for Arthur Matthews and was originally the Post Office which moved here from Oxford Road, and a tailor's shop. The remainder of the parade of shops was promoted by George Francis Duck and built by George Baldwin in 1913. Two storey plus attic. Tudorbethan style with prominent half-timbered gables, dormer windows and chimney stacks all giving vertical emphasis and prominence in the streetscene. These shops are set closer to the road than those opposite and so the sense of enclosure is increased. Some shop fronts, particularly that on the corner with Marsham Way, would benefit from more sympathetic treatment. This is a local building of note within the Conservation Area of Gerrards Cross Centenary. (B1).