Listed building outline
The Post Office
Geographical area
About this entity
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| CURIE | listed-building-outline:390601 | no fact link |
| Prefix | listed-building-outline | Facts about Prefix |
| Reference | 390601 | Facts about Reference |
| Name | The Post Office | Facts about Name |
| Quality | Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source | no fact link |
| Dataset | Listed building outline | no fact link |
| Organisation | Torbay Council | no fact link |
| Start date | 1986-08-15 | Facts about Start date |
| End date | Facts about End date | |
| Entry date | 1986-08-15 | Facts about Entry date |
| Typology | geography | no fact link |
| Geometry |
MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.52628 50.464785, -3.526703 50.46481, -3.526715 50.464794, -3.526721 50.464782, -3.52673 50.464757, -3.526734 50.464742, -3.52674 50.464677, -3.526734 50.46462, -3.526722 50.464619, -3.526711 50.464577, -3.526721 50.464576, -3.526673 50.464432, -3.526517 50.464456, -3.526532 50.4645, -3.526505 50.464505, -3.526479 50.464502, -3.52625 50.464522, -3.526239 50.464532, -3.52628 50.464785)))
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Facts about Geometry |
| Point |
POINT (-3.526505 50.46464)
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| 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 | Facts about Notes |
| Listed building | 1280052 | Facts about Listed building |
Available Code Snippets:
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