POST OFFICE, ASH TREE COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3
3, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251671
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- POST OFFICE, ASH TREE COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3
- Statutory Address:
- 3, SOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251671
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- POST OFFICE, ASH TREE COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ASH TREE COTTAGE, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- POST OFFICE, SOUTH ROAD
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:
- 3, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ASH TREE COTTAGE, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, SOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3359354079
Details
ST35SW
5/87
9.2.61
LYMPSHAM CP
SOUTH ROAD (North side)
Post Office, Ash Tree Cottage and No 3
(Post Office previously listed)
GV
II
Shop and house and two attached houses. Stucco, slate roofs in three distinct sections, that to Post Office hipped,
coped verges, 3 brick stacks. Post Office frontage of a single bay to Church Road, 2 storeys, 2-light casement to
first floor, to ground floor 2 segmental bow windows with glazing bars; central door opening, half-glazed door, door
and windows under a wooden pentice on brackets. Frontage to South Road of 2 storeys, 1:3:3 bays, predominantly sash
windows with glazing bars, those to No 3 under stopped labels. Three door openings, 6-panelled doors, top 2 panels
glazed except C20 French windows to left.
Listing NGR: ST3359354079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434430
- 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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