Post Office Sorting Office
POST OFFICE SORTING OFFICE, 23, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150130
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Sorting Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE SORTING OFFICE, 23, NORTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150130
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Sorting Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE SORTING OFFICE, 23, 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:
- POST OFFICE SORTING OFFICE, 23, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripon
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3119871528
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/11/2015
SE 3171
1/267
RIPON,
NORTH STREET (east side),
No 23 (Post Office Sorting Office)
GV
II
Opened 1906. By architect JG Burrell. Ground floor ashlar. First floor red brick. Slate mansard roof. Two storeys and attics. Heavy wooden modillioned eaves cornice. Moulded band above ground floor, with large sculpted bosses along it. Four bays: sashes with glazing bars, and tall double keystones: ground floor openings also have jambs and voussoirs alternately plain and moulded. Of these, 2 are doors each with 6 moulded panels and oblong fanlight with glazing bars; but front door also has segment-shaped ashlar hood suspended by cast iron braces. Four flat-topped attic dormers, with moulded cornices and angle pilasters. Red brick stacks with modillioned ashlar cornices. Two cast iron downpipes with large shaped rainwater heads.
Listing NGR: SE3119871528
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330177
- 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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