Post Office and House

POST OFFICE AND HOUSE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1030695
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Post Office and House
Statutory Address:
POST OFFICE AND HOUSE, THE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1030695
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Post Office and House
Statutory Address 1:
POST OFFICE AND HOUSE, THE 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POST OFFICE AND HOUSE, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Shottisham
National Grid Reference:
TM 31994 44659

Details

SHOTTISHAM THE STREET TM 34 SW (North side) 10/132 Post Office & House GV II Post Office and house. Early C19. Colourwashed brick with a plain tile roof. Single 2-storey range with shop at right and the house to left. Road front: tri-partite shop front at right. Central doorway, the door having 2 lower recessed panels and 4 upper glazed panels. To either side are windows above low brick walling, of 4x4 panes. To either side of these windows and the doorway are fluted pilaster strips with projecting lozenges to the frieze. The house at left has a central 1/2-glazed doorway with two 3-light casement windows set at each side and having cambered heads. To the first floor are three 3-light casement windows. Band of alternately projecting headers below the eaves. Gable chimney stacks to either side, each having 2 flues. To far right is a single-storey C19 addition with a canted bay window at left and a cambered-headed doorway to right.

Listing NGR: TM3199444659

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Legacy System number:
285498
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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