The Old Post Office
THE OLD POST OFFICE, 26, RODDEN ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172570
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, 26, RODDEN ROW
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10258/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172570
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, 26, RODDEN ROW
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 OLD POST OFFICE, 26, RODDEN ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57728 85286
Details
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY RODDEN ROW, NORTH SIDE
10/64 No 26 (The Old Post Office), 26.1.56 (formerly listed as Threeways)
GV II
Corner Cottage. C18. Rubble-stone walls with rounded corner. Thatch roof, gabled at east end, and with rounded hip to corner with Market Street. One brick stack at east gable. 2 storeys. 2 windows to Rodden Row, one window to Market Street, renewed 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. Wooden cills and lintels. One of 2-lights to Rodden Row. Inserted C20 single light left of front door. Front door, on to Rodden Row, plank with one glass light, C20. The attached shop premises on Market Street are not of special interest. (RCHM Dorset I, p9 (21).)
Listing NGR: SY5772885292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105187
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 9
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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