The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office)
THE POST COTTAGE AND SHOP (POST OFFICE), CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1094585
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office)
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST COTTAGE AND SHOP (POST OFFICE), CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1094585
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST COTTAGE AND SHOP (POST OFFICE), CHURCH 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 COTTAGE AND SHOP (POST OFFICE), CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Meon
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 68020 22153
Details
6822 EAST MEON CHURCH STREET East side
12/21 The post cottage and shop 16.3.54 (post office)
GV II
House and shop. C18 south block (facing High Street to the south), with north side extension of the early C19 (facing Church Street, to the west). Walls of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, some cambered arches, later part stuccoed. Tile roof, with tile-fronted gables to half-dormers, lower-pitched slate roof to the north side. The south elevation is one and a half storeys two windows, C20 casements, and panelled door beneath a hood. The west elevation has two unequal gables, both of stucco and projected above brick dentil bands, the north side having pilasters which enclose a ground-floor shopfront, with a central doorway, a decorative cornice, and windows of small panes. One casement in the north gable and a ground-floor casement to the south side.
Listing NGR: SU6799722155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142852
- 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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