Taunton Head Post Office
Taunton Head Post Office, 38, North Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051982
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Taunton Head Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- Taunton Head Post Office, 38, North Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051982
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Taunton Head Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- Taunton Head Post Office, 38, North 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:
- Taunton Head Post Office, 38, North Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22720 24666
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details, update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 2224 NE
9/10005
TAUNTON
NORTH STREET (East side)
No 38 (Taunton Head Post Office)
GV
II
Post office. 1911, by Arthur Rutherford; built by Pollard and Son of Bridgewater. English bond red brick and Portland stone ashlar. Roof concealed behind parapet. Service hall at front with entrances to left and right and carriageway to rear on the left. Renaissance style. Three storeys, 1:1:4:1 bay front, bays two and seven advanced. Ashlar ground floor with five tall metal-frame windows to the service hall with Ionic pilasters, flanked by projecting doorways with bolection architraves, large keystone inscribed POST OFFICE in cornice and semi-circular fanlight above with flush rusticated arch and large keystone supporting apron of window above. The apron and pilasters of the centre windows have tassel drops. The carriageway on the left has a plain segmental arch with a large keystone and iron gates. Above, first floor windows have fifteen-pane sashes and second floor has twelve-pane sashes, all with keystones in flat arches and moulded cills with small aprons; the projecting bays have stone quoins. Moulded stone cornice with paired modillions and brick parapet with stone coping.
INTERIOR: Later suspended ceiling in the service hall.
The Post Office was built on the site of the Spread Eagle Inn.
Listing NGR: ST2274124669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361612
- 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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