POST COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106885
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: POST COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: POST COTTAGE

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Date:: 2001-09-25
Reference:: IOE01/04017/16
Rights:: © Mr John David Hampshire. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106885
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: POST COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: POST COTTAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: POST COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Templeton
National Grid Reference:: SS 88712 13985

Details

SS 81 SE TEMPLETON TEMPLETON

12/189 Post Cottage -

GV II

House. Probably late C17. Colourwashed and rendered, cob and stone; thatched roof, gabled at left end, half-hipped at right end; projecting left end stack, rear right corner stack (shaft dismantled). Plan: Single depth plan with (formerly) 2 heated rooms, 1 on either side of the entrance which gives into a small lobby with a service room and stair to the rear of the lobby. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with 2 C20 front doors in the centre, 1 into the lobby, 1 into the left hand room which was formerly the Post Office. Small casement windows with glazing bars. Interior: Deeply-chamfered cross beams to left hand room, open fireplace with plain timber lintel. Corner fireplace to right hand room. Roof: No access to roofspace at time of survey (1986); principals visible upstairs are boxed in and appear to be straight. House sited in the centre of Templeton village, group value with church, village pump and Town Cottage.

Listing NGR: SS8871213985

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Legacy System number:: 96837
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.