The Post Office
THE POST OFFICE, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023566
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE, CASTLE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023566
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE, CASTLE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Salisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14404 30157
Details
CASTLE STREET 1. 1594 (East Side) The Post Office SU 1430 SW 1/415 II 2. Corner site with Chipper Lane qv. 1907 by W T Oldrieve. Large ashlar faced building in restrained Cotswold Tudor style, crisp detailing. 2 storeys and semi-attic. Plinth. Moulded strings in part to second floor and carried across with step up to first floor, returned on same level to Chipper Lane front. Steep pitch gable end slate roofs. Tall stone chimney stacks chanelled (rather Voysey). Small lead domed bell cot on ridge. Gable ends with saddlestones. Stone gabled dormers breaking through eaves. Slightly a symmetrical fenestration, stone mullioned and transomed leaded casements, taller on ground floor and wider towards corner on Castle Street front. Main doorway has 4 centred arch with carved spandrels, 3 lights set over. Similar but smaller secondary entrance Large ground floor windows to Chipper Lane, double transomed with moulded ledges over. Later extension to this front in rather French C17 style, ashlar faced, 6 bays, heavy cornice, pedimented dormers, 2 storeys and attic.
Listing NGR: SU1440430157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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