Post Office the Post House
POST OFFICE, 94A, DREW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292504
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office the Post House
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 94A, DREW STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/04801/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292504
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office the Post House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 94A, DREW STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE POST HOUSE, 94B, DREW 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, 94A, DREW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST HOUSE, 94B, DREW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92072 55138
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/100 (East side) 10/01/75 Nos.94A AND 94B Post Office and The Post House (Formerly Listed as: DREW STREET, Higher Brixham (South East side) No.94 Post Office)
GV II
House, now sub-divided into house and post office. C17 or earlier, remodelled early C19. Solid roughcast walls. Shallow-pitched, hipped slate roof. 2 large rendered chimneys with tapered caps on rear wall. 2 storeys. 3 windows wide. Blocked doorway with early C19 flat wooden hood on shaped brackets, in centre of ground storey; now occupied by a plain wood-framed window with an opening light at right-hand end and a 2-panel transom-light over. To right a late C19/early C20 shop front with flanking pilasters and cornice, the latter supported at each end by paired brackets; 3-panel display window canted on left towards a recessed shop door. Other windows have plain box-framed sashes with horns. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest. The building occupies an important position immediately NW of the church of St Mary the Virgin (qv).
Listing NGR: SX9207255138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383602
- 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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