3 Exeter Road
3, Exeter Road, Crediton, Devon, EX17 3BH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297272
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3 Exeter Road
- Statutory Address:
- 3, Exeter Road, Crediton, Devon, EX17 3BH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297272
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3 Exeter Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, Exeter Road, Crediton, Devon, EX17 3BH
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, Exeter Road, Crediton, Devon, EX17 3BH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83887 99959
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SX8399
672-1/4/40
CREDITON
EXETER ROAD (East side)
No.3
(Formerly listed as No.3 The Post Office and No 3)
11/10/72
GV
II
Former Post Office with accommodation above and adjoining at the right. Late C18 with a mid C19 shop front to the Post Office. Stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts.
Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical 2:4-bay front; slate roof hipped at left end; left end and axial stack. Post Office the two left hand bays; C20 timber front door to house in the third bay, C19 six-panel door to the extreme right. Four first floor late C18/early C19 windows with segmental arched heads and sixteen-pane sashes. The two ground floor windows to the right, between the doors are late C19 four-pane horned sashes. Sixteen-pane sash to the first floor of the left return. Attractive shop front to the Post Office with pilasters with sunk panels and a moulded cornice above the fascia. Four-light shop windows flank a central front door with a two-light window on the left return. Two-leaf glazed shop door, two panes per leaf, with a low panel below and a two-pane overlight with rounded corners. The three-pane shop window lights are divided by columns with moulded capitals and moulded spandrels.
Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8388799959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386989
- 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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