Post Office
8, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140960
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 8, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140960
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE, 7, 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:
- 8, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 7, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chacewater
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 75043 44405
Details
CHACEWATER FORE STREET (south side) Chacewater SW 74 SE 5/62 No 7 (Post Office) and No 8 30.5.67 GV II 2 adjoining shops with houses. Early C19. Rendered and painted studwork to front. Corrugated asbestos roof with brick chimneys left and right over party walls. Originally 1-room and double depth plans. Post Office, left is now 1-room with C20 wing to rear. 2 storeys. 3-window north street front. 16-pane horned sash, left, 12-pane horned sash over right side door of Post Office and original hornless 16-pane sash centrally over right shop window. Ground floor left has fine early C19 double- fronted shop with bowed 20-pane shop window either side of shop entrance with glazed and panelled door and overlight. The right-hand bowed window is slightly altered. House doorway to right and bowed shop windows are flanked by narrow pilasters and the whole has entablature with fascia bowed out over the windows and moulded cornice over. Right-hand shop of late date has 6-panel top-glazed door in original opening, left and shopfront of shallow projecting bay with C20 glazing and original simple fascia. Interior of Post Office much altered. The shop to No7 is one of the fine shopfronts for which Chacewater is notable.
Listing NGR: SW7504344405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63157
- 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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