The Post Office and Shrubbery Cottage
THE POST OFFICE AND SHRUBBERY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119226
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office and Shrubbery Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE AND SHRUBBERY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10495/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119226
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office and Shrubbery Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE AND SHRUBBERY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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 OFFICE AND SHRUBBERY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Osmington
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 72491 83072
Details
SY 7283 OSMINGTON CHURCH LANE SY 7283 12/20 The Post Office and 26.1.56 Shrubbery Cottage
GV II
Attached Post Office and cottage. Later C18, (reset datestone in C20 extension at rear of PO: HG 1783). Coursed rubblestone walls with dressed stone quoins. Thatch roof with gable end at south end. C19 brick stacks at left hand gable and ridge right of centre. Two storeys. 5 windows, (total), first floor. Post Office has a square bay window at left ground. 3 panes x 7 panes, with a pentice thatched roof over. Rest are 2 light wood casements with glazing-bars, wood cills and wood lintels. Shrubbery has 2 light wood casements, C18 and C20. Doors: Post Office has front door left of centre, plank with 3 vertical upper lights. Thatch canopy over. Shrubbery: door at centre, plank-and-muntin in wood frame, C19. Thatch canopy over. Interior: PO has slight chamfered ceiling beams. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.181 (10)).
Listing NGR: SY7249183072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105909
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 181
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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