ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES

ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES, 11, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324192
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES
Statutory Address:: ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES, 11, MARKET STREET

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Date:: 2003-03-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324192
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES
Statutory Address 1:: ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES, 11, MARKET STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ABBOTSBURY POST OFFICE AND STORES, 11, MARKET STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Abbotsbury
National Grid Reference:: SY 57643 85356

Details

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY MARKET STREET, WEST SIDE

10/38 No 11 (Abbotsbury Post Office and Stores)

GV II

Post Office and Stores, with attached residential premises. C18, refashioned in the early C19. Coursed, squared stone walls, in Portland and lias. Slate roof. Brick stack on ridge, left of centre. 2 storeys. 4 windows, 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. Shop-front at centre: 2 large shop-windows with thin glazing-bars and moulded cornice carried right over. Doorway at centre, into shop with ribbed architrave and circular bossed corners, 2-leaf flush panelled door, glazed in the upper half, Flush-panelled reveals. Large window at right hand, ground, of same pattern, though 4 panes wide. Doors: at left hand end, next to Ilchester Arms, flush-panelled with 2 top lights, C19. Stone voussoirs. Passage entrance at right hand end, with a keyed stone lintel over.

Listing NGR: SY5764385356

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Legacy System number:: 105157
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.