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Post Office (Former), Bridge Street, Coldingham
Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved. © Copyright and database right 2025. Public Sector Viewing Terms
Useful Links
- Canmore:
- COLDINGHAM, BRIDGE STREET, POST OFFICE AND POST OFFICE HOUSE
- Historic Scotland:
- HS Reference No 190
General Details and Location
Category
AT RISK
Name of Building
Post Office (Former)
Other Name(s)
Address
Bridge Street, Coldingham
Locality
Postcode
Planning Authority
Divisional Area
Reference No
3849
Listing Category
C
OS Grid Ref
NT 90261 65909
Location Type
Small Town
HS Reference No
190
Description
2-storey, originally 3-bay house with later 3-bay, classically-detailed 19th century shop front projecting at ground to left of centre; lean-to addition to outer right; single storey, lean-to projection at rear. Whinstone and sandstone rubble. Narrow quoin strips; rubble quoins; plain margins; projecting cills. Plate glass and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front; 9-pane glazing at rear. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews; scrolled skewputts. Corniced sandstone apex stack to N; replacement apex stack to S; various circular cans. One of the most prominent buildings fronting Coldingham's Bridge Street. Although altered to accommodate a Post Office (formerly a shop), the house remains essentially intact with good details - the shop front itself being a good example of its type. It is the scrolled skewputts which suggest the building may date from before 1800. (Historic Scotland)
Building Dates
Late 18th century with 19th century shopfront
Architects
Unknown
Category of Risk and Development History
Condition
Good
Category of Risk
Low
Exemptions to State of Risk
Adjoining house is occupied and therefore not at risk.
Field Visits
20/03/2009
Development History
March 2009: External inspection reveals that the shop and flat above are lying vacant. The post office has now moved to another location within the village.
August 2011: External inspection finds no significant change from the previous site visit.
Guides to Development
Conservation Area
Coldingham
Planning Authority Contact
PAC Telephone Number
Availability
Current Availability
Unknown
Appointed Agents
Price
Occupancy
Vacant
Occupancy Type
N/A
Present/Former Uses
BARR original text : Post Office to Residential
Name of Owners
Type of Ownership
Unknown
Information Services
Additional Contacts/Information Source
Bibliography
Sharp, Greenwood & Fowler's map, 1826 (not clear). Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (evident). RUTHERFURD'S SOUTHERN COUNTIES' REGISTER AND DIRECTORY (1866, reprinted 1990) p677. F H Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER (1882) p275. C A Strang BORDERS AND BERWICK: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) p30. NMRS photographic records.
Online Resources
Classification
Middle-sized Houses
Original Entry Date
25-MAR-09
Date of Last Edit
25/11/2011