The Old Post Office

THE OLD POST OFFICE, 32, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1360742
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
The Old Post Office
Statutory Address:
THE OLD POST OFFICE, 32, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1360742
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
The Old Post Office
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD POST OFFICE, 32, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD POST OFFICE, 32, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:
Smeeton Westerby
National Grid Reference:
SP 68002 92950

Details

SP 69 SE SMEETON WESTERBY MAIN STREET (east side)

1/57 No 32, The Old Post Office

- II

House. C18, with C20 additions. Brick and ironstone. Graded Swithland slate roof with gable stacks and ridge stack. West front: 2 storeys, 4 bays. Rubble- stone plinth with brick set-offs in 2 bays to right of doorway. Moulded eaves cornice in these 2 bays, unmoulded in 2 bays to left. Off-centre doorway with frame with brackets, and 4-panel door. To left, a 3-light sliding sash with cambered arch. To right similar windows, with gauged brick cambered arches. Below, in the 4th bay to right part of a segmental arch cellar window opening in plinth. Above, three 2-light sliding sashes. Adjoining to south, a 2-storey C20 range with 2 reset tiles in its west gable end wall, both inscribed; the lower: IC Sep 24, 1731. The one above: I*B 1731.

Listing NGR: SP6800292950

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
191382
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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