The Old Post Office

The Old Post Office, 9-11, Church Road, Wootton, MK43 9EU

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277532
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: The Old Post Office
Statutory Address:: The Old Post Office, 9-11, Church Road, Wootton, MK43 9EU

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Date:: 2005-06-12
Reference:: IOE01/14213/14
Rights:: © Mr Keith Hurst. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277532
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: The Old Post Office
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Post Office, 9-11, Church Road, Wootton, MK43 9EU

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Old Post Office, 9-11, Church Road, Wootton, MK43 9EU

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wootton
National Grid Reference:: TL0054045000

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 May 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 0045-0145 34/650

WOOTTON CHURCH ROAD (S. side) No 9-11 (The Old Post Office)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 9 and 11 The Pink House)

GV II

C18 timber-framed houses, with C19 brick wing to rear. Facade of colourwashed pebbledash. Some timber-framing with brick nogging visible to rear though east end mainly rebuilt in brick. Old clay tile roof. Two storeys. Facade has three casements with glazing bars to each floor and three ground floor tongued and grooved plank doors.

Rear wing has asymmetrically spaced casements with cambered heads. Also rear one storey lean-to of colourwashed brick with a pantiled roof.

Listing NGR: TL0054045000

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 431325
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.