NESTON POST OFFICE

1-7, LOCKS CROSS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1198160
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: NESTON POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: 1-7, LOCKS CROSS

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Date:: 2003-10-16
Reference:: IOE01/11334/23
Rights:: © Mr David Wood. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1198160
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: NESTON POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: 1-7, LOCKS CROSS
Statutory Address 2:: NESTON POST OFFICE, LOCKS CROSS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-7, LOCKS CROSS
Statutory Address:: NESTON POST OFFICE, LOCKS CROSS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corsham
National Grid Reference:: ST8616568117

Details

CORSHAM LOCKS CROSS, Neston ST 86 NE 3/255 Nos 1 to 7 (odd) and Neston Post Office II

Row of cottages, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables, end wall stacks and 2 ridge stacks. One and half storeys. Five dormer gables to front. Recessed chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds. C19 gabled ashlar porches with shallow arched doorways and inner C19 four-panel doors. No 1 apparently a later addition, has 3-light upper window, 2-light below and porch to right. Similar end wall windows. Rear wing with end wall stack and north side dormer gable with recessed cyma-moulded 2-light window over door. Straight joint to No 3. No 3 is double fronted with 3-light windows to dormer gables, 3-light, porch and 2-light to ground floor. No 5 has porch to left and 2-light window to each floor, lower window is C18 flush cyma-moulded. No 7 has porch to left and 2-light window to each floor. To right, Post Office, is C19 single storey stone-tiled addition with door and two 2-light windows. Small end addition with single light and lean-to hipped roof.

Listing NGR: ST8616568117

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Legacy System number:: 315283
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.