Post Office
POST OFFICE, 224, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096712
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 224, PRESTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096712
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 224, PRESTON ROAD
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, 224, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY7043583069
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY7083 PRESTON ROAD, Preston
873-1/9/477 (South side)
14/06/74 No.224
Post Office
(Formerly Listed as:
PRESTON ROAD, Preston
No.224)
GV II
Detached house, set gable to the road. Dated 1747. Rubble,
thatch roof. 2-room central-entry plan.
The main front, facing W is 2 storeys, 2 windows; 2- and
3-light small-pane wood casements with central part-glazed
door under a small gable hood. Above the door a panel
inscribed I/RM/1747/May 29. The gable to the road is plain,
with a door to the right, and there are small brick gable
stacks. The rear has a 2-light casement at each level, far
left. Attached to the rear, parallel with the road, is a
single-storey gabled range, a former workshop, with corrugated
roof and rubble walls with a small single and a larger 6-pane
fixed light , to the left of a wide pair of doors under a deep
boarded lintel.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a compact group of early houses in this part of the
village.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 362).
Listing NGR: SY7043583069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 362
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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