1, 2, 3 AND 4 (THE OLD POST OFFICE), AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLING

1, 2, 3 AND 4, STREET LANE

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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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Date:: 2004-04-15
Reference:: IOE01/11511/14
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Official list entry

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

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, 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

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Legacy System number:: 440763
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.