THE OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE

THE OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381898
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET

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Date:: 2004-06-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381898
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET

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 OLD POST OFFICE HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Kineton
National Grid Reference:: SP 33528 50923

Details

KINETON

SP3250 BRIDGE STREET, Kineton 1901-1/14/95 (East side) 06/02/52 The Old Post Office House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET, Kineton (East side) Post Office House)

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House, part the former post office. C17 with 1911 addition. Coursed dressed lias limestone with ashlar dressings, some brick to return; gabled old tile roofs with brick end stacks and 2 stacks to rear of ridge. 3-unit plan plus former post office. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 3- plus 2-window range. Centre slants inward to forward break at left end. Entrance to left of centre has doorcase with angle panels and cornice to 6-fielded-panel door. Ground floor has 2 recessed-chamfered windows with labels and inserted 3-light leaded casements replacing mullions; similar 3-light mullioned windows to first floor; left end has window to each floor with 3/6 sash in flush wood frame; attic has 3 gabled dormers with 2-light leaded casements; some windows have wrought-iron casement fasteners. Right end has quoins and cornices to both floors. Tudor-headed entrance to right has continuous moulding and panel above with partly effaced letters: KINETON/ POST OFFICE; paired 2-fielded-panel doors. 2 similar Tudor-headed windows with raking sills and fixed glazing to left; first floor has pair of 2-light recessed-chamfered mullioned windows with raking sills and continuous label mould. Brick return with half-hipped gable and single-storey wing with 2-light single-chamfered mullioned window with label mould; rebuilt return has small C20 window and half-hipped gable. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP3352850923

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Legacy System number:: 482263
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.