POSTING BOX BUILT INTO FRONT WALL OF NUMBER 1 IVY COTTAGES (POST OFFICE)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103256
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: POSTING BOX BUILT INTO FRONT WALL OF NUMBER 1 IVY COTTAGES (POST OFFICE)
Statutory Address:: POSTING BOX BUILT INTO FRONT WALL OF NUMBER 1 IVY COTTAGES (POST OFFICE)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103256
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: POSTING BOX BUILT INTO FRONT WALL OF NUMBER 1 IVY COTTAGES (POST OFFICE)
Statutory Address 1:: POSTING BOX BUILT INTO FRONT WALL OF NUMBER 1 IVY COTTAGES (POST OFFICE)

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: POSTING BOX BUILT INTO FRONT WALL OF NUMBER 1 IVY COTTAGES (POST OFFICE)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hexton
National Grid Reference:: TL 10631 30629

Details

HEXTON HEXTON TL 1030 (West side)

8/14 Posting box built into - front wall of No. 1 Ivy Cottages (Post Office)

- II

Posting box. Set up 1860, the earliest in Hertfordshire, moved to present position 1922 from wall of the Manor Lodge. Cast iron painted red. The front is a narrow rectangular upright panel 30 inches x 10 inches. Flat pedimented top: hood below with 'POST OFFICE' in raised letters: small postal aperture below hood with metal flap and on lower rim 'LETTER BOX'. Door below divided into 3 horizontal panels: top one carries the royal Cypher 'V R' with crown and the words 'CLEARED AT': the middle panel is blank for impermanent pasted or painted notices of the time(s) of clearing: the bottom panel contains the keyhole and lock. There is a large plain panel to the box below the door, and on the bottom rim the makers' name, 'SMITH AND HAWKES BIRMINGHAM'. Wall boxes were introduced in 1857. (Branch Johnson (1970)135,168: Ashley Cooper (1982)32).

Listing NGR: TL1063130629

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 163024
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 135,168
Other
Cooper, Ashley , (1982)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.