Post Office
POST OFFICE, 15, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328136
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 15, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328136
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 15, CHAPEL 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, 15, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6469240018
Details
CAMBORNE CHAPEL STREET
SW 64 SW
(west side)
10/27
No.15 (Post Office)
GV
II
Post Office, now sorting office. Dated 1899 in pediment; altered internally.
Snecked squared sandstone with granite dressings, slate roof. Plan altered.
Two storeys and 3 unequal bays defined by pilasters; symmetrical; banded
rock-faced pilasters (those at the corners finished with miniature
pediments), a broad band between the floors and a string course above the
1st floor, and a pediment over the centre; the wider centre bay has
coupled 2-light casement windows with pilaster jambs and stilted segmental
heads, raised lettering "POST OFFICE" on the band, a tripartite window at
1st floor with a 2-light centre and sashes without glazing bars, a datestone
in the pediment with raised lettering "1899", and a finial on the apex; the
outer bays have wide doorways matching the ground-floor windows in style,
with panelled double doors and overlights, and 4-pane sashed windows
above. Interior altered. (No.17 to the right, which now houses the Post
office sales counter, is not included in the item.)
Listing NGR: SW6469240018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66572
- 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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