The Post Office and Cottage Adjacent

THE POST OFFICE AND COTTAGE ADJACENT, CANTERBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363356
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
The Post Office and Cottage Adjacent
Statutory Address:
THE POST OFFICE AND COTTAGE ADJACENT, CANTERBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363356
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
The Post Office and Cottage Adjacent
Statutory Address 1:
THE POST OFFICE AND COTTAGE ADJACENT, CANTERBURY ROAD

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 POST OFFICE AND COTTAGE ADJACENT, CANTERBURY ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Denton with Wootton
National Grid Reference:
TR 21567 47085

Details

TR 24 NW DENTON AND WOOTTON CANTERBURY ROAD (east side) 1/32 The Post Office and Cottage adjacent GV II House pair with post office. Early C18 in 2 builds: Red and blue brick with some flintwork. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys. Roof with stacks at end right, centre right and projecting and offset at end left. Three glazing bar sashes on first floor. Canted bay to left, glazing bar sashes to centre, with gauged head, and to right, with segmental head. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels with flat hood on brackets, and boarded door with segmental head to right. The left hand section originally a symmetrical 2 bay frontage. Catslide outshot to rear.

Listing NGR: TR2151847232

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
178561
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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