Post Office
POST OFFICE, TONTINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290405
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, TONTINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290405
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, TONTINE 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, TONTINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88390 47529
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ8847 TONTINE STREET, Hanley 613-1/8/56 (South East side) 08/11/91 Post Office
GV II
Post office. 1906 by John Rutherford. Ashlar faced. 2 storeys and attic, facade of 11 bays (1-3-3-3-1), with outer bays projecting. Central pediment carried on paired Doric shafts and coat of arms in apex, above basement storey with central round-arched entry in stone canopy, and round-arched windows. Continuous band of 6 small windows in central attic storey, separated by shafts serving as mullions. Doorways in moulded stone architraves flanked by sash windows to each side, and round arched doors in outer bays, with pedimented windows over. These advanced outer bays have segmental pediments. Heavy entablature throughout. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire).
Listing NGR: SJ8839047529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
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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