Post Office and Adjoining Barn
POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING BARN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383984
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING BARN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383984
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING BARN, 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:
- POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING BARN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70520 86949
Details
DENT
SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town
162-1/25/190 (South side)
14/06/84 Post Office and adjoining barn
GV II
Pair of cottages, now combined as post office and shop.
Probably C18; altered. Coursed rubble with quoins, painted
white; stone slate roof. Double-depth 2-unit plan, with a rear
wing to the left half and the barn continued from the end of
that.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys and 3 windows; with a plinth. The
ground floor has a pair of square-headed doorways in the
centre, both with board doors but the left now fixed, a square
4-pane sash to the left, a rectangular 2-light shop window to
the right and a letterbox next to that. The 1st floor has 3
square sashes (12, 4 and 12 panes respectively). Gable chimney
to left with stone slate band, ridge chimney to right coupled
with that of The Wool Shop. The left gable wall has a 12-pane
sash near the rear corner of the ground floor, a small 1-light
window above this, a large rectangular window near the front
corner of the 1st floor (now with double glazing imitating a
16-pane sash) and a small square attic window immediately
above this; the rear wing has a doorway at the junction, a
little window left of this and a 12-pane sash above. The barn,
of unpainted roughly-coursed rubble with through-stones,
probably 2 bays, continued at the same height, has a
square-headed doorway at the junction, with a stone lintel, a
loading door above this, and a wagon doorway at the left end
with a wooden lintel. Rear and interior not inspected.
Forms group with The Wool Shop adjoining to the right (qv),
and with Siege Ghyll to the south-east (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7052086949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484416
- 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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