Old Post Office
OLD POST OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082557
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POST OFFICE
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- Date:
- 2007-06-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/16405/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082557
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Sept-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POST OFFICE
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:
- OLD POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Staunton on Wye
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 33924 46237
Details
STAUNTON-ON-WYE
SO 34 NW
SO 339462
1427/3/105 Old Post Office
GV II
Cottage. Probably late C17 or early C18 with later alterations. Timber-frame with plaster and brick infill. Small brick and weatherboarded extension. Welsh slate roof and large extruded sandstone rubble rear stack with brick shaft. Rectangular two-bay plan aligned north-west/south-east with south-west projection to centre. One storey and attic. North-west elevation has gable to left and low weatherboarded part with stack to right. Gable has one attic window, a 2-light mid-C20 casement. Ground floor has a 3-light casement to right of centre and ledged door, probably mid-C19, to left. North-east elevation to road has two mid-C20 casements, each of 2-lights to ground floor. Frame is three square panels high from cill to wall-plate. Interior inaccessible at time of re-survey (November 1986). The cottage is said to have once been a post office. (RCHM. Vol III, p 187).
Listing NGR: SO3392446237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 187
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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