Post Office
POST OFFICE, 32 AND 33, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273941
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 32 AND 33, UNION STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273941
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 32 AND 33, UNION 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, 32 AND 33, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryde
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 59238 92656
Details
UNION STREET 1. 1577 (East Side) Nos 32 & 33 (Post Office) SZ 5992 2/l1 31.7.70.
II GV
2. With No 34. Early C19. Three storeys. Stuccoed, seven windows in all. The North section is an extension to the Post Office, which presumably was once a separate building (No 32). This has two windows, one slightly recessed, cornice and parapet with a small pediment in the centre, a flattened bow window of three lights with pilasters between the lights and cornice over on the first floor, the ground floor rusticated. The remainder (the Post Office and No 34) has a parapet without a pediment, pilasters flanking each building from the first to second floor, two flattened bow windows of three lights each with pilasters between the lights and cornice over, also between these bow windows on the first floor two ordinary sash windows in architrave surrounds with cornices over supported on consoles. Glazing bars intact above the ground floor. Ground floor modern.
Nos 30 to 39B (consec) form a group. ------------------------------------
Listing NGR: SZ5923892656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416700
- 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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