The Post Office and Adjoining Premises
THE POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036970
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office and Adjoining Premises
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036970
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office and Adjoining Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, 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.
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 AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Raydon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05001 38698
Details
RAYDON THE STREET TM 03 NW and TM 03 NE (West Side) 3/33 and 4/33 The Post Office and - adjoining premises - II House and Post Office. Probable late C15 - early C16 core with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed, rendered, with red brick stacks. Concrete tile roof. One storey and attic 3-cell plan, right section being an addition, and extensions to rear not of special interest. Central section originally open to roof. C20 shop front to right. Two C20 casements and two flat topped dormers with C20 casements. Stack off-centre to right and external stack to left gable end, upper parts of both rebuilt. Steeply-pitched swept roof. Interior: centre bay chamfer-stopped beam and exposed joists. Inglenook to end room at left with arched chamfer-stopped bressumer. Sections of wall studding exposed. Smoke-blackened common rafter roof to centre bay reinforced with C20 softwood to support concrete tiles.
Listing NGR: TM0500138698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277273
- 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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