THE OLD POST OFFICE AND HOLLAND COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055001
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE AND HOLLAND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD POST OFFICE AND HOLLAND COTTAGE

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Date:: 2004-06-11
Reference:: IOE01/12455/15
Rights:: © Gill Cardy. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055001
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE AND HOLLAND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD POST OFFICE AND HOLLAND COTTAGE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD POST OFFICE AND HOLLAND COTTAGE

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Clunbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 37060 80585

Details

SO 38 SE; 4/51

CLUNBURY C.P., CLUNBURY, The Old Post Office and Holland Cottage

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House, now divided into two. Mid-C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rendered rubblestone plinth; slate roof with ornamental cresting, carved bargeboards and shaped finials. Original plan apparently of three framed bays with short end bay added in late C17. One storey and attic. Framing: square panels, three from cill to wall plate with a long straight tension brace to front left corner. C19 casements throughout including to canted bays to far left and immediately to right of roughly central 4-panel door (top panels now glazed). Gable to left of centre has 3-light casement on each floor; another 3-light casement to far right. Three late C19 gabled dormers in bottom of roof slope, one to left and two to right of gable, that furthest to right with leaded casement. Internal red brick end stack with toothed capping to left. Painted rubblestone cladding to right gable end, which has principal rafters of original roof exposed. INTERIOR: far right (Holland Cottage) only inspected. This has original end wall visible (square panels with collar and tie-beam truss), showing that end bay is an addition.

Listing NGR: SO3706080585

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Legacy System number:: 257556
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.