THE POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333790
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: THE POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT WEST
Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333790
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: THE POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT WEST
Statutory Address 1:: THE POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT WEST

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING AT WEST

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Gittisham
National Grid Reference:: SY 13475 98422

Details

GITTISHAM GITTISHAM, (north side) SY 19 NW

7/159 The Post Office and Post Office 22.2.55 House including outbuilding adjoining at west (formerly listed as Eveleigh Home) GV II

House, rear wing in use as Post Office. Circa early C18, possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. Flint rubble, rendered under the eaves; thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at ends: axial stack to main range, stack at junction between main range and wing, both with brick shafts. Plan: L plan. Single depth south-facing main range with an entrance to right of centre into a passage facing the chimney-breast of the axial stack which heats the kitchen, to the left. To the right a parlour heated by a rear lateral stack, the principal stair rising adjacent to the stack within the wing. The left hand end of the house is divided between a service room and a service stair. The rear right wing, at right angles to the parlour, has been adapted for use as the Post Office on the ground floor. The interior features are early C18 except for one 2-light mullioned window which may be earlier. At the left end a single-storey brick outbuilding has a thatched roof, probably C19. Single-storey brick lean-to at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with regular fenestration. Probably C19 front door to right of centre with panels of planks and a gabled porch hood. 2-light C19 or C20 timber casement window with glazing bars, the front door flanked by transomed windows. The right return, fronting the road, has a probably C20 plank front door to the Post Office, 4 first floor 2-light C19 or C20 casements with glazing bars, 2 similar ground floor windows, 1 small first floor C20 window and a blocked window to first floor left. 2-light timber mullioned window to first floor left. 2-light timber mullioned window with ovolo-moulded mullions to first floor rear. Interior: Carpentry and joinery details of the early C18 include 2-panel doors and a door with fielded panels to the kitchen. The parlour, to the right, has an C18 china cupboard with shaped shelves. Boxed-in crossbeams to the wing and to the kitchen. C18 main and service stairs, the main stair with a flat ramped handrail and a balustrade of turned balusters on the first floor, the service stair also with turned balusters. The first floor rooms are plastered up to the collar level of the trusses and do not appear ever to have had flat ceilings. An attractive house with early C18 features in the centre of a conservation area.

Listing NGR: SY1347598422

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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.