Greenwood Cottage Old Post Office
GREENWOOD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303674
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Greenwood Cottage Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- GREENWOOD COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303674
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Greenwood Cottage Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENWOOD COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD 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:
- GREENWOOD COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stinsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 72094 90872
Details
STINSFORD SY 79 SW LOWER BOCKHAMPTON
8/147 Old Post Office and Greenwood Cottage 26.1.56 (formerly listed as pair of cottages 60 yards SE of School)
GV II
Pair of cottages. C18. Rubblestone walls, hipped thatched roof, central brick stack. 2 storeys. Old Post Office has brick porch with pantile roof and round arched opening. Pair of C20 glazed doors. Ground and first floors each have 2 casements with cast iron glazing. Later 2-storeyed rear wing, of brick with slate roof. Greenwood has plastered porch with gabled pantile roof and C20 stable door. Ground floor has 2 casements with lead lights. First floor has 2 casements, one with lead lights, one with cast iron glazing. C20 single storey rear extension. (RCHM Monument 6 Dorset Vol II)
Listing NGR: SY7209490872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106336
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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