Post Office and Adjoining House
POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING HOUSE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097488
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Adjoining House
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING HOUSE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097488
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Adjoining House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING HOUSE, FORE 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 AND ADJOINING HOUSE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08351 85304
Details
OTTERTON FORE STREET (south side) SY 0885 Otterton 7/163 Post Office and adjoining house GV II Post Office and adjoining house. House is C17, refurbished and rearranged in late C19; Post Office is mid C20. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble and brick stacks with late C19 brick chimney shafts; thatch roof. Post Office is plastered brick with slate roof. The house faces south-east, its left end onto Fore Street. It has a double depth plan with the 2 main rooms to the front, the left one with an end stack and the right one with a slightly projecting front lateral stack. Entrance hall and staircase at right end. Service rooms to rear, the right one with a lateral stack. The Post Office shop projects at right angles to rear of the left end facing onto the street. It is single storey. The house is 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of C19 casements with glazing bars. Late C19 part-glazed 4-panel door at right end with C20 gabled hood. The stack to left of it has slate weathered offsets. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Left end includes 2 ground floor and 1 first floor casement with glazing bars. Shop has central doorway flanked by plate glass windows. Interior: The only C17 feature that can be observed is the central roof truss. The lower part is plastered over but its shape indicates jointed cruck construction. Other C17 features may be plastered over elsewhere but only C19 joinery detail shows. The Post Office house is one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.
Listing NGR: SY0835185304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86364
- 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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