The Post Office

THE POST OFFICE, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170708
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
The Post Office
Statutory Address:
THE POST OFFICE, SCHOOL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170708
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
The Post Office
Statutory Address 1:
THE POST OFFICE, SCHOOL 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE POST OFFICE, SCHOOL LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Kilmington
National Grid Reference:
SY 27320 97919

Details

SY 2797 KILMINGTON SCHOOL LANE 21/336 The Post Office

II

Cottage. Circa C16. Roughcast stone rubble. Concrete tile roof with gabled ends. Two storeys. Three window range. C20 casements. Central doorway with C20 porch. Rendered chimney stack at gable end. One storey and attic wing to left hand much altered. Semi-circular stair tower at rear. Interior: jointed cruck trusses. Chamfered cambered arch doorframe at back of cross passage. Similar doorframes are to newel stairs with solid wooden treads, the other in partition on first floor. Stopped chamfer ceiling beams. Open fireplace with cambered and chamfered bressummer and chamfered stone jambs. The bressummer extends to left to form two centred arch.

Listing NGR: SY2732097919

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
88020
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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