The Olde Post Office
THE OLDE POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345872
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Olde Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLDE POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345872
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Olde Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLDE POST OFFICE, 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:
- THE OLDE POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stocklinch
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3823817358
Details
STOCKLINCH CP MAIN STREET (Test side)
ST3817
6/104 The Olde Post Office
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GV II
Detached house. Circa 1800, but incorporating an earlier one-storey building. Local stone rubble, with some cut and
squared work; double Roman clay tiled roof with bargeboarded gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 2 bays.
Casement windows of early pattern, 3-light with iron-framed central opening lights, horizontal bars added, timber
lintels below: to right of bay 2 a boarded door in heavy frame set in open timber porch with two Tuscan columns (said
to have come from Wilton House, near Salisbury, in 1950s) and tiled roof. In north gable a small 2-light leaded
casement under timber lintel; both gables show the earlier roof here of a lower building. Small extension to rear.
Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST3823817358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264006
- 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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