Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box
LUCCOMBE POST OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174766
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box
- Statutory Address:
- LUCCOMBE POST OFFICE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174766
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUCCOMBE POST OFFICE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALL BOX
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:
- LUCCOMBE POST OFFICE
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALL BOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Luccombe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 91136 44507
Details
SS9144 LUCCOMBE CP LUCCOMBE VILLAGE
14/51 Luccombe Post Office (formerly listed as Ketnor), mounting block and wall box
22.5.69
GV II
Cottage including Post Office, mounting block and wall box. Probably C16, early C17 enlarged with south wing, early C19 addition to west. Rendered over rubble and cob, thatched roof, half hipped left, hipped to right, roughcast lateral stack with circular chimney to right of entrance, tall brick stack rising from eaves right return. Plan: probably single cell heated by lateral stack, enlarged to L-plan, Post Office addition right with angled return wall and outshut at rear forming square plan, Two storeys, first floor tiny glazed opening left, lateral stack with C19 2-light headed casement to right, end bay unlit and recessed with door to Post Office below, stable type door with pierced half door in front, C19 2-light casement right of stack, entrance to cottage left, half-glazed with marginal glazing bars and thatched roofed rustic wooden porch, mounting block of 3 steps to left, Left return, early C19 3-light leaded iron casement in gable end, small steeply chamfered 2-light stair window in wing to left, ground floor two 2-light windows, one C20; wall box to right. Right return, wall angled out with first floor C19 window, C20 ground floor, outshut at rear. Interior not seen. C19 wall box with name of Smith and Hawkes Birmingham at base. A picturesque irregular thatched cottage. (Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: SS9113444509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265334
- 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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