Post Office
POST OFFICE, 3, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180246
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 3, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180246
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 3, MAIN 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:
- POST OFFICE, 3, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Belvoir
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 82512 31245
Details
In the entry for
SK 8231-8331 BELVOIR
44/213 Knipton 15.8.79 Post Office
GV II
The address shall be amended to read
SK 8231-8331 BELVOIR MAIN STREET (north side) 44/213 Knipton 15.8.79 Post Office (No 3)
GV II ----------------------------------------------------------- SK 8231-8331 BELVOIR
Knipton 44/123 Post Office 15.8.79
GV II Post Office. Circa 1870. Brick, faced with coursed ironstone to facade and north-west return. Roofs of graded Cwiberland slate. One storey and dormer attic. One-bay gabled cross wing projects to right with a canted bay to ground floor and a 3-light casement to first floor. All windows to facade are stone mullioned casements with shouldered heads. Entrance in main elevation: stone surround and overlight. Single-light casement to left below a through-eaves gabled dormer with twin-light casement. Left bay projects and projection includes a second gabled dormer. 3-light cross casement to ground floor. Post box set into wall in centre of front.
Listing NGR: SK8251231245
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190028
- 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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