Post Office and Attached Cottage
POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205456
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205456
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, 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 AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- North Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blankney
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 06779 60222
Details
BLANKNEY MAIN STREET TF 0660 (east side) 7/8 Post Office and attached Cottage 5.6.87
GV II
Post Office and estate cottage. c1835 by W A Nicholson. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs, with ashlar coped gables and moulded kneelers. A group of 4 octagonal Tudor style white brick and ashlar ridge stacks, and a pair of similar gable stacks. Flush ashlar quoins and chamfered ashlar and white brick plinth. Y-plan. Single storey plus attic. South, 4 bay entrance front has off-centre doorway with contemporary door and moulded ashlar 4 centred arched surround. To the right a 2-light and beyond a single light window, to the left another single light windows with the lower part blocked by a wall post box. Above the door a similar window, with to the left a 2-light through eaves dormer which projects slightly and is supported on brackets. The gabled south-west corner front, has a 4-light canted ashlar bay window with above a 2-light window under a dripmould. The west 3 bay front has to the left two 2-light windows and a single light window to the right. Above to the left are two 2-light through eaves gabled dormers, which project slightly and are supported on brackets. All the windows have recessed and chamfered mullion surrounds, with glazing bar casements. This building is part of the complete estate village erected for the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.
Listing NGR: TF0677960222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358279
- 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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