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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
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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