The Old Post Office and the Post Box
THE OLD POST OFFICE AND THE POST BOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306305
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office and the Post Box
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE AND THE POST BOX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306305
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office and the Post Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE AND THE POST BOX
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:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE AND THE POST BOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ogwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83973 70081
Details
SX 87 SW OGWELL EAST OGWELL VILLAGE
2/12 The Old Post Office and - The Post Box
GV II
Pair of cottages. Probably a single farmhouse originally. Late C16 or C17 with the rear wing of The Old Post Office perhaps a later addition; C20 addition behind The Post Box. Main range is of lightly rendered stone with no straight joint in the front wall between the cottages. Slated and thatched roof. Probably of 3-room and through-passage plan originally, the left-hand end (containing passage and lower room) now called The Old Post Office, the right-hand end (containing hall and inner room or parlour) now called The Post Box. 2 storeys, but with noticeably higher eaves-level at The Post Box; rear projections single-storeyed. Old Post Office has slated roof, flipped at left-hand end, to main range, and corrugated-iron roof to rear wing. Doorway to right of front wall with late C19 or early C20 lean- to porch. To left of doorway a projecting stone stack with set-offs and tapered top, a later brick shaft built on to one side of it. Irregular fenestration, consisting of C20 wood casements. 2 ground-storey windows to left of stack, 1 second-storey window above doorway and another at far left-hand end. A panel of slate-hanging above window left of stack. Small brick stack rising from left-hand gable-well. Few internal features; ground-storey room has very roughly chamfered ceiling-beams and main fireplace with segmental brick arch of headers. Roof mostly reconstructed; surviving principal rafter has threaded purlin and halved collar with shaped end. Post Box has thatched roof with chimney-stack in each gable. To left, heavy stone stack (backing on to through-passage internally) with added shaft on top; to right, brick stack of C19 or later. Front two windows wide. Ground- storey windows enlarged C20, but with small-paned glazing. Wood casements to second-storey windows, C20 to left, C19 to right. At left-hand of ground storey, a rectangular projection, probably an oven. Internally, the former hall has chamfered ceiling-beams and the fireplace a chamfered wood lintel with straight-cut stops. Roof not inspected; trusses have plain feet, now cased.
Listing NGR: SX8397370081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84289
- 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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