Former Post Office and Post Master's House
Post Office House, Croome Road, Sledmere, YO25 3XJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083799
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Post Office and Post Master's House
- Statutory Address:
- Post Office House, Croome Road, Sledmere, YO25 3XJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083799
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Post Office and Post Master's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Post Office House, Croome Road, Sledmere, YO25 3XJ
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 House, Croome Road, Sledmere, YO25 3XJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sledmere
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 93243 64884
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 May 2022 to update the name and address, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 9264-9364
17/33
SLEDMERE
CROOME ROAD (west side)
Post Office House
Former Post Office and Post Master's House
(Formerly listed as Post Office and Post Master's House, CROOM LANE)
GV
II
Former post office and post master's house. c1890 with later additions and alterations. By John Birch for Sir Tatton Sykes, fifth Baronet. Reddish-orange brick in English garden wall bond with plain tile roof. Approximately T-shaped on plan with infil to rear. Single bay range with single bay cross wing to right of single storey with attic to gables. Chamfered plinth. Entrance to central gabled porch, a board door with glazing to head in four-centred, moulded surround under hoodmould with label stops. Above a decorative blind oblong recess under hoodmould. Dentil barge board to gable. To left a three-light window, incorporating "GR" post box,with rubbed brick sills in ovolo-moulded surround under flat arch of rubbed brick and dripmould. To right a four-light window with wooden ovolo-moulded mullions, in ovolo-moulded surround, under flat arch of rubbed brick and with moulded drip and sill. To gable a similar three-light window. Decorative barge boards. Paired octagonal flues to large ridge stack.
Listing NGR: SE9324364884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 346
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 22 Humberside,
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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