Lavender Cottage Withiel Post Office
LAVENDER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311487
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lavender Cottage Withiel Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- LAVENDER COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311487
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lavender Cottage Withiel Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAVENDER COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WITHIEL 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:
- LAVENDER COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- WITHIEL POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Withiel
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 99477 65411
Details
WITHIEL WITHIEL SW 96 NE 3/162 Lavender Cottage and Withiel Post - Office
GV II
Pair of attached houses. Circa mid - late C18, with some later alterations and additions. Granite rubble. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks and axial stack with brick shafts. Plan: Lavender Cottage is to left, of 2-room plan, each room heated from a gable end stack ; the stack to right is in an axial position. Withiel Post Office is to right, of one-room plan, with entrance to left and the room to right, heated from a gable end stack to right. Exterior: Lavender Cottage is 2-storey, symmetrical 2-window front; all windows are C20 12-pane lights, with segmental arches at ground floor. Central C20 plank door. At the left side is a single storey rendered lean-to, probably originally a kitchen/scullery, with C20 window to front and large stack at the left side. Withiel Post Office is 2-storey, asymmetrical 2-window front; all windows are C19 4- pane sashes with cambered brick arch to the window at ground floor to right. C20 half-glazed door and small single light to left. C19 single storey addition at the right side with C20 window to front. Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SW9947065414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67628
- 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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