Post Office
POST OFFICE, HUGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291788
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, HUGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291788
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, HUGH 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, HUGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isles of Scilly (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Mary's
- National Grid Reference:
- SV 90202 10587
Details
ST. MARY'S
SV9010 HUGH STREET, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/63 (North side) Post Office
GV II
Post Office. 1897, probably by Thomas Algernon Dorrien-Smith, Lord Proprietor and architectural amateur. Snecked rock-faced granite with shaped boulder-faced granite surrounds and dressings; gabled slate roofs. Unusual almost Alpine style. 2 storeys. 3-window first-floor range. All openings have massive hewn boulders forming cills, quoins and lintels. Ground floor has segmental-arched carriageway to right; C20 door set in recessed square-headed doorway to right of tripartite window with rough granite mullions and single-light window; first-floor 4/4-pane horned sashes. Two projecting gables, that to left taller and over 2 bays, carried on cantilevered granite brackets with scissor trusses. Plaque with date 1897 VR to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Steeply-pitched roof to rear wing. Included as a distinguished and prominent example of Dorrien-Smith's estate architecture. His uncle, Augustus Smith, introduced the postal service to the Isles of Scilly.
Listing NGR: SV9020210587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62502
- 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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