Coughton Post Office
2, COUGHTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024565
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Coughton Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 2, COUGHTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024565
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Coughton Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, COUGHTON LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- COUGHTON POST OFFICE, BIRMINGHAM ROAD
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:
- 2, COUGHTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- COUGHTON POST OFFICE, BIRMINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0801260326
Details
COUGHTON BIRMINGHAM ROAD
SP06SE (West side)
1/164 Coughton Post Office and No.2
01/02/67 Coughton Lane
(Formerly listed as Post Office and shops adjoining)
GV II
Includes No.2 Coughton Lane. House, now post office and tea room, and separate cottage. C17 with C18 front (VCH). Timber framed; square framing with brick infill. Front of brick with brick string course and brick dentil cornice. Brick range on right. Old tile roof; brick stacks. L-plan, extended to T-plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Central late C18/C19 shop front has panelled half-glazed door, and 2 bow windows with glazing bars and reeded wood surrounds. Continuous shaped fascia. To right of this a 6-panelled part-glazed door with moulded wood surround. Wood and iron casements with glazing bars. Door and windows under cambered brick arches. 3 hipped dormers. Lower 2-storey, 2-window range to right has blocked openings with cambered arches on ground floor. Two 3-light leaded casements with crown glass on first floor. Left return side to Coughton Lane has external stack. To rear: exposed framing. Timber-framed wing (No.2 Coughton Lane) with jowled posts. Large internal stack of 2 shafts, one of thin bricks. Plank door and small C20 trellis porch. C19 and C20 casements. Interior: Exposed timber framing.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol,III, p.74).
Listing NGR: SP0801260326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305327
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 74
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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