PEGGOTTYS POST OFFICE TOWNSEND COTTAGES

PEGGOTTYS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214872
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: PEGGOTTYS POST OFFICE TOWNSEND COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: PEGGOTTYS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214872
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: PEGGOTTYS POST OFFICE TOWNSEND COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: PEGGOTTYS
Statutory Address 2:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 3:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES, 2

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:: PEGGOTTYS
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES, 2

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Litton Cheney
National Grid Reference:: SY 54959 90638

Details

SY 59 SW LITTON CHENEY LITTON CHENEY VILLAGE

3/152 Post Office, Peggottys and no 2 Townsend Cottages

- II

Post Office and 2 attached cottages in a row. c.Late C17. Rubble- stone walls. Thatch roof. Brick stack at centre ridge. 1½ storeys with gable-ends. 5 windows, 2- and 3-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars. Wooden cills and lintels. Doors, at left hand to post office, C20. Two doors, next to each other at centre, plank with 4 glass lights, C20. Interior: Peggottys: large open fireplace in right ground room with wooden bressummer, straight-chamfered, and stopped. Brick-lined bread oven in left jamb. Roughly-chamfered ceiling-beams to ground floor.

Listing NGR: SY5495990638

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Legacy System number:: 399821
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.