The Post Office
THE POST OFFICE, BODENHAM VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023830
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE, BODENHAM VILLAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05294/17
- Rights:
- © Mr Mark Geraghty. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023830
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE, BODENHAM VILLAGE
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:
- THE POST OFFICE, BODENHAM VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Odstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 16625 26171
Details
SU 12 NE ODSTOCK BODENHAM VILLAGE (north side)
5/125 The Post Office
II
Cottage and attached shop. Circa 1840. Flemish bond brick with vitrified headers, decorated tiled roof with brick stacks. L-plan. 2-storey, 3-window front. Door to right in gabled porch with hood mould in gauged brick, to left is C19 shop window, and 2-light casement and planked door under one hood mould, in projecting wing to left, to right of door is 2-light cast-iron casement. All windows have gauged flat arches. First floor has 3-brick plat band and three 2-light cast-iron casements with hood moulds. Three steeply-pitched gables to front have brick cornices. Left return has door in gabled porch with hood mould and two 2-light cast-iron casements. First floor has 3-brick plat band and two 2-light cast- iron casements. Roof with two gables with brick cornices. Right return has two single wooden casements to ground floor, plat band to first floor and one C20 metal casement. Integral outshut to rear has C20 dormer to roof. Well-designed estate building of the Longford Castle Estate.
Listing NGR: SU1662526171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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