The Old Post Office (Between Numbers 3 and 5)
THE OLD POST OFFICE (BETWEEN NUMBERS 3 AND 5), REGENT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315038
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office (Between Numbers 3 and 5)
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE (BETWEEN NUMBERS 3 AND 5), REGENT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315038
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office (Between Numbers 3 and 5)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE (BETWEEN NUMBERS 3 AND 5), REGENT 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 OLD POST OFFICE (BETWEEN NUMBERS 3 AND 5), REGENT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34459 06523
Details
SE3406NW BARNSLEY REGENT STREET (south side), Barnsley 8/64 The Old Post Office (between Nos 3 and 5) GV II Former Post Office, now offices. 1881. Ashlar facade,brick sides. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Three storeys. Symmetrical 4-bay facade. Rusticated ground floor. Elaborate square-headed portals to left and right, with double, panelled doors and coved, grooved jambs. Each has large modillioned cornice on elaborately-scrolled brackets and is decorated with lions' heads and floral bosses. Two large ground-floor, square-headed sash windows. 1st-floor sash windows are square-headed with moulded architraves and triangular pediments on scrolled brackets. Sill band with turned balusters under each window. Moulded band above 1st floor. Square-headed 2nd-floor sash windows in moulded architraves on sill band. Deep modillioned cornice.
Listing NGR: SE3445906523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333753
- 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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