Post Office
POST OFFICE, 51, SHIP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380919
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 51, SHIP STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380919
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 51, SHIP 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, 51, SHIP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30997 04216
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW SHIP STREET
577-1/40/849 (East side)
13/05/91 No.51
Post Office
(Formerly Listed as:
SHIP STREET
Post Office)
GV II
Post office. The main building of c1925, but incorporating
parts of an earlier building of c1895; annexe to the south of
1849. The main building has a Portland stone front, red brick
and terracotta to gable ends, roof of tiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5-window range. The street front consists
of 5 equally- and widely-spaced bays; on the ground floor the
archivolts over the round-arched openings are linked by a
springing band, and the spaces between the openings are
treated as fielded panels; thus the ground floor reads as a
widely-spaced arcade. Flat-arched entrances in the outer bays
with a bolection-moulded architrave and glazed tympanum; the 3
windows between have metal glazing echoing the round arches,
altered in places. Moulded storey band incorporating a panel
lettered 'POST OFFICE'. The first-floor windows have a sill
band, architrave and cornice on consoles; cornice and
balustraded parapet; the south gable end, so far as visible,
consists of cornice, lunette (now blocked) and shaped gable
flanked by corniced stacks, all in red brick with buff
terracotta dressings; the north gable has an external stack
and one corniced stack, in the same materials.
INTERIOR: panelled vestibules; the main hall has square
chamfered columns now clad in wood; dentil details to framing
of the ceiling; broad wooden doorcases from the vestibules
with pulvinated frieze and segmental pediments; the doorcases
behind the counter have panelled pilasters and cornices.
Annexe to south: stucco, roof obscured by parapet. 2 storeys,
7- window range, the second and 6th bays from the main
building recessed and giving, though of unequal width, the
effect of a centrepiece and wings. Ground floor decorated with
banded rustication. Ground-floor openings round-arched and set
back under a round arch of plain stucco; springing band. Broad
entrance to first bay, and narrow entrance to 7th; sill band;
first-floor windows flat-arched with architraves and pediment
on consoles, except for tripartite window in second bay which
has a cornice on consoles pedimented only over the central
window; entablature and blocking course, the latter raised and
panelled over the centrepiece.
Listing NGR: TQ3099704216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481243
- 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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