Post Office
POST OFFICE, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, CORNHILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, CORNHILL
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:
- POST OFFICE, CORNHILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16254 44605
Details
1. 1260 CORNHILL (South Side)
Post Office TM 1644 NW 1/266
II GV
2. A late C19 stone fronted building with grey gault brick at the rear. built in an Italianate palazzo style, with splayed corners and a parapet with a modillion cornice. A central feature rises above the parapet with a Royal coat of arms and female figures. The end bays of the facade are marked by pairs of arched pavilions rising above an ornamental parapet. 2 storeys and a lower ground storey on Princes street which forms an ashlar base to the building. 5 window range on the front, one window range on each splayed corner and 8 window range on Princess Street, double-hung sashes without glazing bars. The 1st storey windows are set in semi-circular recessed arches with keystones with human heads, between paired Ionic pilasters. On the ground storey a Roman Doric portico projects on the front with paired columns on pedestals, a modillion cornice and a low parapet with female standing figures representing Industry, Electricity, Steam and Commerce. It is approached by a flight of stone steps. The 1st storey windows on Princes Street have architraves and cornices and a pediment rises above the end 3 windows on the south end. The ground storey windows are set between rusticated pilasters and have enriched architraves and aprons and keystones with human heads. At the south end there are paired pedimented doorways.
Nos 7, 8, 13 & 15, Golden Lion Hotel, Town Hall & Post Office form a group.
Listing NGR: TM1625444605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275423
- 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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