Post House
POST HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316789
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Post House
- Statutory Address:
- POST HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316789
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Post House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- POST HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kettlewell with Starbotton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 95298 74758
Details
SD 97 SE KETTLEWELL WITH STARBOTTON MAIN STREET (west side) Starbotton
11/110 Post House (formerly listed as Post Office) 10.9.54
GV II
House. Late C17 with later alterations. Limestone rubble, gritstone dressings, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Quoins. Board door between bays 2 and 3, in chamfered quoined surround with plain lintel and a pitched stone hood on shaped corbels. Flanking 4-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows with central king mullions to ground and first floors, and hood moulds to ground floor. Board door to right of bay 1 with 2-light chamfered mullioned windows to ground and first floor. Short end stacks and between bays 1 and 2. Right return: blocked window to first floor left. Interior not inspected at resurvey but recorded in 1979, the ground floor rooms contained 3 fine fireplaces of late C17- early C18 type. Yorkshire buildings Study Group, Report No. 595, 1979
Listing NGR: SD9529874758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Yorkshire Buildings Study Group in Yorkshire Buildings Study Group, Vol. 595, (1979)
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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