Torbay Council

Listed building outline: The Post Office 390601

The Post Office 390601

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entry-date: 1986-08-15
listed-building: 1280052
name: The Post Office
notes: Post Office. Opened 1912. Built under the supervision of John Rutherford, architect to H.M. Office of Works; cost over »12,000 (Ellis). Portland and Bathstone ashlar; slate roof. Baroque style. PLAN: Central entrance into office, archway to right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 7 bays, the outer bays set back. Rusticated ground floor with quoins. Deeply-projecting cornice on brackets with a blocking course carrying a balustraded parapet. First-floor string course. Central doorway with a moulded architrave with window over below a segmental-headed pediment on consoles. Outer round-headed recesses with moulded keystones: window in left recess, archway in right recess. First-floor windows with moulded architraves with keystones; centre window with broken pediment, others with segmental-headed pediments. Outer bays have second-floor oculi with swags. Contemporary gas light fixed to front. INTERIOR: Altered. (Ellis C A: An Historical Survey of Torquay, 2nd edition: 1930-: P.330). Listing NGR: SX9174863870
reference: 390601
start-date: 1986-08-15
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