Post Office
12, RINGWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120050
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 12, RINGWOOD ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/02019/36
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120050
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, RINGWOOD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE, RINGWOOD 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:
- 12, RINGWOOD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, RINGWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ferndown Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 06612 98391
Details
HAMPRESTON SZ 09 NE RINGWOOD ROAD,(East) LONGHAM 12/33 No. 12 and Post Office - II A pair of estate cottages. 1869, with minor C20 changes and C20 extension. Walls of red brickwork in Flemish bond, with Bath stone dressings; plinth, window surrounds, hood-moulds. Roof of (C20) interlocking tiles, gables above the half-dormers; central stack with four octagonal flues. A 'Tudor' design, with a C20 shop attached to the north end; symmetrical west front of one and a half storeys, two windows. Metal casements with diagonal lights. No. 12 (south side) has a doorway with a Tudor arch and a boarded door with wrought-iron decorative hinges; the post office doorway has been altered, to a window. There are plaques above each doorway, and between the upper and lower windows, with raised ornament, the one above the south side door with the figure 12, others with heraldic and floral decoration, incorporating the date 1869.
Listing NGR: SZ0661298391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107659
- 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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