Post Office
POST OFFICE, 66, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068747
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 66, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068747
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 66, HIGH 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, 66, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Epworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 78162 03891
Details
SE 7803-7903 EPWORTH HIGH STREET (north side)
20/71 No 66 (Post Office) 10.2.86
GV II
House, now Post Office. Probably C17 origins, with C18 and later brick encasing and infilling, mid-late C19 rebuilt south gable with shop front; late C18 - early C19 addition to rear. Timber framing with mud-and-stud infill (pair of wall posts and mid-rail with small section of original infill visible on west side), largely encased and rebuilt with brick; north extension in brick. Pantile roofs throughout. Plan: 3-room main range, formerly with 4 bays of timber framing and lobby entry to right of centre; room to left now shop. Stands gable-end to street. Single-storey with attic. Street front has shop front with recessed C20 half-glazed door and side light beneath original plain overlight, 3-light window to left with thin transom; both door and window in pilastered surround with plain frieze and ornate carved consoles carrying moulded cornice and hood. Pair of attic windows above: 12-pane sash to right in flush wooden architrave with sill beneath segmental stretcher arch, unsympathetic C20 window to left in similar original opening. Stone and brick-coped curvilinear gable. East front: 2 windows. Blocked original segmental-headed entrance to right of centre. To left, a 4-pane casement beneath segmental arch, inserted C20 door and blocked segmental-headed door. To right, straight joints indicating position of wall post, inserted C20 window beneath timber lintel, inserted C20 door. Pair of full raking dormer windows with C20 six-pane casements and rendered cheeks. Rendered T-plan axial stack. West side has pair of oak wall posts (bottom sections removed) and mid-rail to bay south of chimney, with later 4-pane casement, blocked door and brick infilling below rail, and weatherboarding over mud-and-stud walling above. 12-pane casement to left. Straight joint to right. Exposed wall plate. Single- room, 2-storied north extension, now used as sorting office, has wide inserted door beneath timber lintel, casement to left, 12-pane first-floor sliding sash, dentilled brick eaves cornice, tumbled-in brick to raised gables, corniced end stack to right. Interior of main range has large stack with inglenook fireplace to left beneath arched chamfered bressumer with later C18 - C19 moulded cornice over; chamfered spine beam to right room, boxed-in spine beam to left. Plaster floors to first floor. 4-bay pegged collared rafter roof with arched collars. One of the earliest surviving vernacular buildings in the Isle of Axholme.
Listing NGR: SE7816203891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165132
- 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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