Post Office 15, Modbury
Description: Post Office 15
Grade: II
Date Listed: 25 January 1990
English Heritage Building ID: 99666
OS Grid Reference: SX6584851602
OS Grid Coordinates: 265849, 51602
Latitude/Longitude: 50.3490, -3.8869
Location: 14 Broad Street, Modbury, Devon PL21 0PU
Locality: Modbury
Local Authority: South Hams
County: Devon
Country: England
Postcode: PL21 0PU
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Listing Text
MODBURY BROAD STREET
SX 6451-6641
(south side)
7/74
No 15 (Post office)
GV II
House and shop at street junction. C18, street facade renewed 1987. Abestos-
cement slate hanging, painted rubble flank wall with channelled pilaster strip
to Pandwell Street; slate roof, hipped to right, decorative ridge tiles. Three
storeys, 3 windows; ground floor has continuous plate-glass late C19 or early
C20 shop frame in 1:2:1 wide bays in two set-back glazed doors, to small stall-
board riser, with very thin mullions to bracketed caps and a band of leaded
glazing beneath good painted and gilded glass fascia with cornice. At first and
second floors are three 12-pane replacement sashes (1987). Right return has
deep 24-pane sash with thick glazing bars, and 2 later lights over a door,
extreme right. This, like No 14 adjoining (qv) may have been set back to allow
for the market building which stood in the road here until 1827. The shop front
has been added to the original front.
Listing NGR: SX6584851597
Source: English Heritage
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