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Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Hugh town, Isles of Scilly

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Coordinates

Latitude: 49.9151 / 49°54'54"N

Longitude: -6.317 / 6°19'1"W

OS Eastings: 90202

OS Northings: 10587

OS Grid: SV902105

Mapcode National: GBR BXSX.98S

Mapcode Global: VGYC4.GD9G

Plus Code: 8CXMWM8M+25

Entry Name: Post Office

Listing Date: 14 December 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1291788

English Heritage Legacy ID: 62502

ID on this website: 101291788

Location: Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, TR21

County: Isles of Scilly

Civil Parish: St. Mary's

Built-Up Area: Hugh town

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Isles of Scilly

Church of England Diocese: Truro

Tagged with: Post office

Description


ST. MARY'S

SV9010 HUGH STREET, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/63 (North side) Post Office

GV II

Post Office. 1897, probably by Thomas Algernon Dorrien-Smith, Lord Proprietor and architectural amateur. Snecked rock-faced granite with shaped boulder-faced granite surrounds and dressings; gabled slate roofs. Unusual almost Alpine style. 2 storeys. 3-window first-floor range. All openings have massive hewn boulders forming cills, quoins and lintels. Ground floor has segmental-arched carriageway to right; C20 door set in recessed square-headed doorway to right of tripartite window with rough granite mullions and single-light window; first-floor 4/4-pane horned sashes. Two projecting gables, that to left taller and over 2 bays, carried on cantilevered granite brackets with scissor trusses. Plaque with date 1897 VR to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Steeply-pitched roof to rear wing. Included as a distinguished and prominent example of Dorrien-Smith's estate architecture. His uncle, Augustus Smith, introduced the postal service to the Isles of Scilly.

Listing NGR: SV9020210587

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