The Old Post Office
THE OLD POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046445
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/04192/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046445
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, MAIN 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 OLD POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fringford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60517 28883
Details
FRINGF0RD MAIN STREET SP6028 (East side) 20/21 The Old Post Office
- II House. Mid C18 with C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble. Steeply pitched thatched roof. Four brick ridge and end stacks. 3-unit plan. Single storey plus attic. 4-window attic range. 2 entrances, blacked on left with wood lintel. Approximately central entrance has 6-panelled door, wood frame and wood lintel. C20 porch. Ground floor has a single light C20 window with wood lintel and two 3-light wood casements in wood frames with wood lintels. Attic has three 2-light similar windows and a C20 single-light window. Tie-bar on left, fire plaque on right, Flora Thompson, who wrote Lark Rise to Candleford, once worked here when the building was the village post-office. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pl26)
Listing NGR: SP6051728883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243614
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 126
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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