Post Office
POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061700
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/03627/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061700
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK7843900429
Details
SK70 SE EAST NORTON MAIN STREET (South Side)
2/11 Post Office
(previously listed as The Stores
29.12.66 Main Street)
GV II
House. Dated 1643. Coursed and squared ironstone rubble, heightened in brick.
Welsh slate roof. Gable on to street containing canted bay window 2 storeys
high, roofed in stone and with 3-light ovolo moulded mullions. 3-light mullioned
window to attic above, and date stone with initials R.H. Side (west elevation)
is of 3-bays and 3 storeys, the third storey a C19 heightening in brick. 2
doors in gabled timber porches flank a single light chamfered stone window
while on the first floor a similar central window is flanked by 3-light ovolo
moulded stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. Axial stack. Lower extension
along street to east, also of coursed ironstone rubble with some brickwork
and Welsh slate roof. 6-light window with chamfered head to left and low chamfered
stone light and 3-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned window to right. 2 upper
windows of 6 and 2-lights. Axial stack.
Listing NGR: SK7843900429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190786
- 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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