POST OFFICE COTTAGE THE POST OFFICE

POST OFFICE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204297
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE COTTAGE THE POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE COTTAGE

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Date:: 2002-10-05
Reference:: IOE01/08922/13
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204297
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE COTTAGE THE POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: POST OFFICE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: THE POST OFFICE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Broadhembury
National Grid Reference:: ST 10106 04799

Details

BROADHEMBURY BROADHEMBURY SY 10 SW

5/43 The Post Office and Post Office 22.2.55 Cottage

GV II

Estate house, partly in use as the Post Office. C17 or earlier origins, perhaps originally one build with Potters, a late medieval house adjoining at the left, C20 renovations, including some repartitioning. Creamwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings; thatched roof with a plain ridge, gabled at ends; end stack and rear lateral stack. Plan: Single depth main range, originally 3 rooms wide with a C19 or C20 through passage taken out of the centre room and a rounded stair projection off the passage. Single storey rear wing at right angles to the left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the front door with a thatched porch hood, approximately central. Glazed C20 door to the Post Office at the left with diamond panes, tall 4-light C20 window to the right of the Post Office door also with diamond panes. 2 ground floor 3-light C19 or C20 timber casements with glazing bars; 3 first floor 2-light C19 or C20 casements, 2 with square leaded panes. Gothic 'D' for Drewe, the family name of the owner of the Broadhembury Estate, above the Post Office window. Interior: The centre room (partly divided by the passage) has a fine ceiling of moulded intersecting beams. The right hand room has a chamfered stopped axial beam. The partition that divides the right hand room from the centre room has timber studs. Winder timber stair in the rear projection: Roof: Not inspected as the attic is said to be entirely boxed in. One of a group of houses in an outstanding and unspoiled estate village.

Listing NGR: ST1011004798

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Legacy System number:: 87045
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.