1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office) , and Front Boundary Walling
1, 2, 3 AND 4, STREET LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241782
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office) , and Front Boundary Walling
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 2, 3 AND 4, STREET LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241782
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office) , and Front Boundary Walling
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 2, 3 AND 4, STREET LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLING, STREET LANE
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:
- 1, 2, 3 AND 4, STREET LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLING, STREET LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Odcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5057515425
Details
ST5015 0DCOMBE CP STREET LANE (North side)
10/268 Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4
(The Old Post Office), and front
boundary walling
(formerly listed as Post Office
Row)
(5 cottages)
19.4.61
GV II
Row of 4, formerly 5, cottages. Earlier C19. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof to shallow pitch between stepped coped
gables with obelisk finials; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 6 bays, of which bays 1 and 2 may be of separate build.
Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows of 3-lights in chamfered recesses with separate labels, all lights 4-centre arched
with incised spandrils and with rectangular leaded panes; doorways to right of each bay except to bay 1, which is
narrow, having boarded doors set in deep 4-centre arched recesses with beaded surrounds, under deep lintols with
labels; those to right of bays 2 and 5 now blocked and converted to 2-light windows. Small stone plaque between upper
bays 1 and 2, but no legend visible. East gable has 2 bays of matching 3-light windows, but the north bay blind at both
levels: C20 extension to west gable. Interiors not seen. Enclosing small front gardens, and about 1.5 m from houses, is
a tall ashlar wall with thin coping, with gaps and returns to gateways apposite those doorways still retailed, fraying
5 or 6 lias stone steps up to doorways.
Listing NGR: ST5057515425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440763
- 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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