Post Cottage
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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- 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
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96837
- 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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