The Post Office
THE POST OFFICE, FLEET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280052
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE, FLEET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280052
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE, FLEET 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:
- THE POST OFFICE, FLEET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91748 63870
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 FLEET STREET 885-1/17/97 (East side) 16/08/86 The Post Office
GV II
Post Office. Opened 1912. Built "under the supervision of John Rutherford, architect to H.M. Office of Works"; cost over »12,000 (Ellis). Portland and Bathstone ashlar; slate roof. Baroque style. PLAN: Central entrance into office, archway to right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 7 bays, the outer bays set back. Rusticated ground floor with quoins. Deeply-projecting cornice on brackets with a blocking course carrying a balustraded parapet. First-floor string course. Central doorway with a moulded architrave with window over below a segmental-headed pediment on consoles. Outer round-headed recesses with moulded keystones: window in left recess, archway in right recess. First-floor windows with moulded architraves with keystones; centre window with broken pediment, others with segmental-headed pediments. Outer bays have second-floor oculi with swags. Contemporary gas light fixed to front. INTERIOR: Altered. (Ellis C A: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.330).
Listing NGR: SX9174863870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ellis, A, A Historical Survey of Torquay, (1930), 330
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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