Post Office
6 AND 8, PARK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262220
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, PARK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262220
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6 AND 8, PARK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE, 2 AND 4, PARK STREET
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:
- 6 AND 8, PARK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 2 AND 4, PARK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 44415 16762
Details
WOODSTOCK PARK STREET SP4416NW (North side) 9/205 Nos.2 and 4 (Post Office) and 31/07/70 6 and 8 (Formerly listed as No.2 (Post Office)) GV II House, now dwelling, part of Oxfordshire County Museum and post office. Late C16/early C17. Coursed limestone rubble; double-gabled M-shaped stone slate roof; brick right end and ridge stacks, and left end stack of stone finished in brick. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. 3-window range to right: wrought-iron brackets support flat hood above C20 door; mid C19 shop fronts have 4-light windows with glazing bars and sunk spandrels to arched heads; flat stone arches over horned and unhorned 8-pane sashes. To left, is similar bracketed hood and timber lintel over C18 six-panelled door; C17 two-storey square bay window has 8-pane sashes, with thick glazing bars on ground floor. Left bay has mid C19 canted bay windows with six-pane sashes framed by pilasters and moulded cornice. Three gabled roof dormers with 2-light latticed and leaded windows. Three C17 two-storey rear wings: wing to right has finely-carved timber lintels over 2-light leaded casement and 3-light wood-mullioned window, and later C17 bay to rear with stop-chamfered timber lintel over 4-light leaded casement. C20 extension to rear left. Interior; stop-chamfered beams. No.8 to left has stop-chamfered and cased beams and some early C17 panelling with fluted frieze in room to right; late C18 panelled door with brass Dutch-drop handle; early C19 moulded plaster cornice. Noted as having C17 staircases with turned balusters to the rear of Nos.2-6. Called "newly built" in 1608. (Information from VCH)
Listing NGR: SP4441516762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1939)
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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