FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE

FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113291
Date first listed:: 01-May-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE
Statutory Address:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113291
Date first listed:: 01-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL OCTAGONAL POSTING BOX IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF PAY OFFICE, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX4650354678

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4654NE HIGH STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/56/810 Former Royal Naval Hospital: 01/05/74 Octagonal Posting Box immediately S of Pay Office (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Stonehouse Royal Naval Hospital: Octagonal Posting Box immediately S of Pay Office)

GV II

Post box. 1853-59 for the Royal Naval Hospital but probably cast by one of the Post Office contractors. Painted red cast-iron. Octagonal pillar with angle beading, moulded cap which is flat and moulded base with shallow plinth. Vertical posting slit with external flap. Part of an outstanding complex of military hospital buildings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 654 & 655; Journal of Royal Medical Service: Gordon Pugh, P D, Surg. Capt. Royal Navy: History of the Royal Naval Hospital Plymouth: 1972-).

Listing NGR: SX4650354678

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Legacy System number:: 473507
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 654-655
Pugh, G, 'Journal of Royal Medical Service' in History of the Royal Naval Hospital Plymouth, (1972)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.