Post Office House
POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1101758
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM ROAD
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- 2002-08-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/06874/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1101758
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Warburton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70953 89304
Details
SJ 78 NW WARBURTON DUNHAM ROAD (south side)
6/177 Post Office - House - II
Post Office, now house. c.1893. John Douglas. English garden wall bond brick, terracotta dressings and clay tile roof. Asymmetrical L-shaped plan with 2 storeys and a porch. 3 bays with first floor decorative brickwork band, overhanging eaves and steeply pitched roof with 2 prominent gable stacks. 3-light flattened ogee-headed window in bay 1 and 4- light similar in bay 3 (which projects as a wing) but with a transom. All the windows are detailed in terracotta and only the first floor ones retain leaded lights. The porch in bay 2 is timber framed and has a pitched roof. The first floor has decorative lozenge panels in brick and painted render to bay 1 and the gable of bay 3. Bays 2 and 3 have 2 and 3- light mullion windows as above.
Listing NGR: SJ7095389304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212938
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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