The Post Office With House Immediately West
THE POST OFFICE WITH HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056097
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office With House Immediately West
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE WITH HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST, WEST STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/09223/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056097
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office With House Immediately West
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE WITH HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST, WEST 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 WITH HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 41938 12606
Details
ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (North side)
7/84 The Post Office with house immediately west 4.2.58
GV II
House and shop in row. C18, extended in C19. Ham stone cut and squared, with rendered brickwork to extension; double Roman clay tiled roof between high coped gables suggesting former thatch; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys: 3 + 3 bays. House has 16-pane sash windows with exposed boxes in plain openings with voussoired flat-arched heads, but to lower bay 2 a single-storey angled bay window of B + 20 + 8 panes, having lead flat roof. To lower bay 3 a six-panel door with toplights in plain opening under timber hood on wrought-iron brackets. The shop projects in bays 1 and 2 under catslide roof with hipped returns: 16-pane sash windows to both bays, which have rounded corners at this level; to ground floor a C19 shopfront with square bay windows of 4 + 8 + 2 panes flanking part-glazed door in half-depth recess; continuous slim fascia across front and to returns. Bay 3, which is also rendered, has a small casement window above and pair of timber garage doors below. Interior only seen in shop, which has a chamfered ceiling beam: reported is a 3-room cross passage plan, with two hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in rear; bay 3 of the shop may represent a former throughway: roof has collar truss frame. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, July 1977).
Listing NGR: ST4193812606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in July, (1977)
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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