The Post Office and Old Post Office
OLD POST OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251256
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office and Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POST OFFICE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/00142/13
- Rights:
- © Michael Woodhead. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251256
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office and Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POST OFFICE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE POST OFFICE
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:
- OLD POST OFFICE
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Washford Pyne
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8028609935
Details
SS 80 NW
6/283
WASHFORD PYNE
LOWER BLACK DOG
The Post Office and Old Post Office
GV
II
2 houses, formerly a coaching inn. Probably late C18-early C19. Plastered cob and
rubble; rubble stack with C19 brick chimney shaft; roof is partly slate, partly
corrugated asbestos, and may originally have been all thatched. Pair of adjoining
2-room plan houses facing south-west, The Post Office occupying the left (north-
western) end and Old Post Office in the right (south-eastern) end. Original lobby
entrance behind 2-storey porch towards left end and large axial stack serving back-
to-back fireplaces. Second axial stack right of centre. 2 storeys. Overall 6-
window front of various late C19 and C20 casements, most with glazing bars. Ground
floor right end window (the Old Post Office) has late C19 margin panes containing
coloured glass. C20 glass-sided porch. Original lobby entry left of centre is now
disused. Gabled 2-storey porch has plain outer opening with flat head and benches
along each side. Lobby apparently never had an external door. Disused doors off
each side include C18 2-fielded panel door to left (The Post Office). The Post
Office now entered from left (north-west) end.
Interior has plain carpentry detail where exposed.
Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS8028609935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433915
- 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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