Wall With Posting Box Outside Glebe House
WALL WITH POSTING BOX OUTSIDE GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101230
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wall With Posting Box Outside Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- WALL WITH POSTING BOX OUTSIDE GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101230
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wall With Posting Box Outside Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL WITH POSTING BOX OUTSIDE GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
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:
- WALL WITH POSTING BOX OUTSIDE GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02760 11121
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN PIPERS HILL TL 01 SW (North side) 3/115 Wall with posting box - outside Glebe House
GV II
Wall with posting box. C18 wall, posting box 1861 (of the earliest type of wallbox used in this county, only 2 remain, here and at Hexton c.1860) of the type in use by Post Office 1859-1861. By Smith and Hawkes of Birmingham. Cast iron, painted red, set in short red brick roadside wall, about 1.5m high. Narrow box front 10 inches wide x 30 inches tall. Pedimented top with hood bearing the words 'POST OFFICE'. Small aperture under hood has metal flap and 'LETTER BOX' on lower rim. Door divided into 3 horizontal panels; upper one has royal cipher 'VR' with crown and the words 'CLEARED AT'; blank middle panel for impermanent gunned or painted table; the lower contains the lock. Large fixed panel below door with maker's name at bottom. (Branch Johnson (1970) 135).
Listing NGR: TL0275411115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 135
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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