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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Date:: 2006-06-22
Reference:: IOE01/15878/08
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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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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.