Post Office House
POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101758
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office House
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101758
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE HOUSE, DUNHAM 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:
- 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
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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