Post Office
POST OFFICE, 19 AND 20, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388563
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 19 AND 20, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388563
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 19 AND 20, GUILDHALL 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, 19 AND 20, GUILDHALL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97457 71255
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771SW GUILDHALL STREET
1941-1/11/138 (North side)
02/10/69 Nos.19 AND 20
Post Office
GV II
Post office. 1906. By WT Oldrieve for HM Office of Works.
Brick, with terracotta front and dressings, and slate roofs
with 2 coped and buttressed gable stacks. Renaissance Revival
style.
Plinth, moulded sill band, second floor sill band, shouldered
coped gabled dormers, moulded coped gables. 2 storeys plus
attics, 6 bays. Windows are casements with terracotta mullions
and transoms. Central 5-light window flanked by single
doorways with mullioned overlights, and pilasters topped with
winged lions. To left, two 3-light windows and to right, a
5-light window, all with cornices. Above, six 3-light windows
with arched cornices. Above again, 6 gabled dormers with
pilasters, with 3-light windows and cartouches in the aprons
and heads. Double gabled rear elevation has mainly cross
casements.
INTERIOR refitted mid C20.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 507).
Listing NGR: SK9745771255
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 507
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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