Lichfield and Post Office
LICHFIELD AND POST OFFICE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100380
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lichfield and Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- LICHFIELD AND POST OFFICE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100380
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lichfield and Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- LICHFIELD AND POST OFFICE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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:
- LICHFIELD AND POST OFFICE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07920 14630
Details
FLAMSTEAD HIGH STREET TL 0714 (North side) 9/22 No. 17 (Lichfield), - and No. 19 (Post Office)
GV II
House, now a house and a shop. Early/mid C17, early C18 rear outshut, brick front late C19 with 'ECSS' as cypher in plastered central gable, for Egbert Cecil Sebright Saunders who succeeded to the Sebright estate in 1890. Timber frame, brick cased with buttressed front wall of plum brick with bands of light red brick. Steep old red tile roof. A long, 2-storeys and cellar building on street front facing S with rear outshut and large internal chimney. Former lobby-entry plan with hall and service room beyond at W (No. 17) and parlour to E (No. 19). S front has casement windows with lintels set between projecting brick buttresses. Central gable with cypher. Shop has lean-to tiled hoods over windows flanking door. Single-storey building linked to E and not of special interest. Interior has exposed timbers, axial chamfered beams to W of main chimney with large open fireplace. Chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists in parlour with open fireplace. 2 chamfered cross-beams to E end part with run-out stops. Exposed frame in rear wall and cross-walls. Jowled posts, straight braces to tie-beam. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0792014630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157798
- 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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