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THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE

THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE, CHURCH SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328514
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE
Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE, CHURCH SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328514
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE, CHURCH SQUARE

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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Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE ADJOINING AT SOUTH, THE DRANGWAY AND PART OF PASSAGE TO THE EAST BETWEEN CHURCH SQUARE AND GIBRALTAR SQUARE, CHURCH SQUARE

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bude-Stratton
National Grid Reference:: SS2309606445

Details

SS 23 06 BUDE-STRATTON CHURCH SQUARE, STRATTON

13/170 The Post Office and Dwelling House 5-3-52 adjoining at south, The Drangway and part of passage to the east between Church Square and Gibraltar Square. GV II*

House, part of passage and Post Office. C16, C17 remodelling, C18 addition to south, C20 alterations. Whitewashed and plastered, probably cob, with slate roof and brick chimneys. The C16 build was probably a 3-room cross or through-passage plan. The through-passage survives as the rear of the passage between Church Square and Gibraltar Square, marked by 2 granite arched doorways. The kitchen was probably on the site of Gibralter House (q.v.), Gibralter Square being the rear courtyard. In the early C17 the house was remodelled with a parlour in place of the hall on the ground floor, heated by the original front lateral stack and a grand first floor room above heated from the same stack with an elaborate plaster chimneypiece and decorated plaster walls. In the C18 a wing was added to the south (rear) right forming an L plan. The east end of the early C17 parlour and room above is now part of The Drangway, the parlour is partitioned between what is now the Post Office and the living accommodation. An inserted ceiling leaves part of the first floor chimneypiece in the attic which also contains the remains of plaster decoration in the west gable wall. The Post Office and dwelling house adjoining at south: 2 storeys. 3 window front to Church Square with Post Office shop front with central front door. First floor windows three 4-pane C20 timber sashes. Gabled attic dormer in centre. Rear window lighting former hall retains granite chamfered lintel and jambs and was formerly a 3-light mullioned window. Ground floor room left has partially blocked fireplace with chamfered fireplace beam intact behind C20 fireplace. C16 linenfold panelling probably re-used from C16 build to window recess. Circa early C17 oak ceiling with boards and pattern of lozenges in applied moulding continues into present Post Office ceiling painted white in Post Office. Well to former newel stair to rear right of Post Office. First floor room left has partially blocked fireplace with early C17 elaborate decorated plaster chimneypiece consisting of consoles supporting entablature with plaster vine and rose carving and plaster heads. Above the entablature are 2 rounded decorated pilasters framing scroll decoration around a central mermaid holding a mirror and probably a comb. The pilasters are built up around wooden posts visible in the attic. The west gable wall in the roofspace is decorated with a pattern of plaster lozenges with ogival wings with ornamentation of heads and vinecarving. Roof trusses have cambered collars mortised into principals and 2 tiers of trenched purlins. Some evidence of fixing for barrel ceiling. The roof trusses may predate the plaster work. Shop front of Post Office projects on internal iron columns. Important survival of richly-decorated early C16 Cornish townhouse. The Drangway and part of passage to the east between Church Square and Gibraltar Square: House including part of passage way from Church Square to Gilbraltar Square. House late C18, may be earlier to rear. House stone rubble to first floor level on front, rendered and colourwashed above, slate hung and painted on right return of front. Front part of house has hipped slate roof with brick stack at west, roof to rear adjoins the Post Office to the west and Gibraltar House to the east. 2 storeys. 3-window front with passageway to Gibraltar Square on front at left. Central front door under concrete lintel that continues above former shop window on front at right. First floor windows left and right hornless sashes 8 panes above 8 panes. First floor middle window 16-pane fixed window. Interior not inspected. Passageway to Gibraltar Square has 2 granite arches. The C16 arched doorway half way through the passageway has moulded jambs and leaves carved in the spandrels (q.v. The Post Office, passage and dwelling house at south). The Drangway was formerly one property with the C16 house behind (now Post Office and dwelling house at south) and was presumably a polite addition to face Church Square.

Listing NGR: SS2309606445

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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.