Post Office
POST OFFICE, SOUUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219936
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, SOUUTH STREET
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- Date:
- 2006-05-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/14827/18
- Rights:
- © Mr Douglas Holt. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219936
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, SOUUTH 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, SOUUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69219 90507
Details
SOUTH STREET
1.
5191
(West Side)
Post Office
SY 6990 7/293
II GV
2.
1904-5. Architect: John Rutherford. Red brick with Portland ashlar dressings.
Pitched tile roof. 2 storeys. Full eaves entablature with modillion cornice
and blocking course. Roughly symmetrical about entrance on corner, which is
curved and crowned by ashlar parapet and green copper dome with finial. Door
with semi-circular fanlight,flanked by blocked Tuscan pilasters taking entablature
with pulvinated frieze, against which are placed blocked Ionic half-columns
taking simple consoles which support a nearly semi-circular moulded stone hood.
Above this are woords "Post Office" in contemporary brass lettering. On lst
floor are 4 very narrow sashes with glazing bars separated by Ionic pilasters
which take the eaves entablature. Corner bay is flanked by 2 bays with Portland
ashlar quoins, each crowned by open pediments with modillions. 1 range each
of sashes with glazing bars, those on 1st floor segment-headed. Ground floor
windows have stone aprons, moulded architraves, triple keys and segmental pediments.
1st floor windows have moulded sills, shouldered architraves, and segmental
cornices with triple keys breaking through them. The South Street elevation
has an identical bay at the opposite end to this. between them on ground floor,
is 1 huge sash window with glazing bars in segmental arch with moulded architrave
and triple keystone below which are the letter boxes. Above it are 6 sashes
with glazing bars joined by continuous moulded sill separated by Ionic pilasters
which take the eaves entablature. The other elevation, however, has 3 sashes
with glazing bars and a door with fanlight on ground floor, all with moulded
sills, architraves, and triple keystones. Above these 8 pairs of sashes with
glazing bars with moulded sills but plain ashlar surrounds. End bay on this
elevation has Portland quoins and parapet above eaves entablature. Door in
moulded architrave with pediment. 1 window on lst floor, with moulded architrave
and triple keystone.
Interior: Thomas Hardy designed the War Memorial Inscription (1920).
NB. Neo-Georgian extension on west side is not included.
Nos 1 to 6 (consec)South Terrace, Nos 37 to 41 (consec), No 40A, No 41A and the
Post Office form a group.
Listing NGR: SY6921990507
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 25 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1012
War Memorials Online, accessed 25 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121497
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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