Post Office
POST OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182252
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182252
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, CHURCH 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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 12685 66869
Details
WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD CHURCH STREET TM 16 NW
3/117 Post Office 29.7.55 GV II House and post office. Probably C16 core with C17 addition to right and C18- Cl9 wing to rear. Little altered since C19. Timber framed, old plasterwork, thatched roof. 3 cells. 1½ storeys. A complete set of C18 casement windows with old square-leaded glass. To left, an early C19 canted shop window with 30 small panes. Adjacent early C19 doorway: convex reeded architrave, dripboard on paired fluted brackets; 6-panel door in 2 leaves, the lower 2 panels flush, the upper 4 fielded. Early C19 doorway into house: reeded architrave and cornice; 6-panel door with flush, fielded and raised and fielded panels. Gabled timber trellis porch. 2 dormers. Internal stack and another at right gable end. 1½-storey range to rear, including C19 weatherboarded cart shed and stables, all under a glazed black pantiled roof. Interior. Most of timbers concealed. A chamfered ceiling beam in centre room is probably C16. To left of stack, 2 cambered collars with remains of large curved braces from the principal rafters. Right cell seems to be a C17 addition: some plain first floor studding, chamfered ceiling joists with small lamb's tongue stops.
Listing NGR: TM1268566869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281702
- 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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