Old Post Office
OLD POST OFFICE, THE LANING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383997
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POST OFFICE, THE LANING
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12616/20
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383997
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POST OFFICE, THE LANING
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:
- OLD POST OFFICE, THE LANING
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 70415 87069
Details
DENT
SD7087 THE LANING, Dent Town
162-1/24/203 (North side)
14/06/84 Old Post Office
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C17 or early C18;
enlarged and altered. Roughly coursed sandstone rubble with
quoins, stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan on
east-west axis facing south.
2 storeys and 3 windows, almost symmetrical. The ground floor
has a gabled porch in the centre (perhaps a recent addition),
flanked by large square windows now furnished with 6-pane
sashes; the 1st floor has a 4-pane sash in the centre and a
6-pane sash on either side. Front left corner overlapped by
front outshut of adjoining property (which is not of special
interest). Corbelled chimney at east gable; ridge chimney at
junction to left. Rear has inserted back door to right, small
stair-window in centre, and 2 other windows on each floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with the Old School (qv) diagonally opposite to
the south-west.
Listing NGR: SD7041487069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484429
- 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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