Pillar Box at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place

PILLAR BOX AT NORTH SIDE OF JUNCTION IN MALVERN PLACE, DOURO ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104286
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1977
List Entry Name:
Pillar Box at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place
Statutory Address:
PILLAR BOX AT NORTH SIDE OF JUNCTION IN MALVERN PLACE, DOURO ROAD

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104286
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1977
List Entry Name:
Pillar Box at North Side of Junction in Malvern Place
Statutory Address 1:
PILLAR BOX AT NORTH SIDE OF JUNCTION IN MALVERN PLACE, DOURO ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PILLAR BOX AT NORTH SIDE OF JUNCTION IN MALVERN PLACE, DOURO ROAD

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SO 93970 21980

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9321NE DOURO ROAD 630-1/16/308 Pillar Box at north side of junction 06/07/77 in Malvern Place

GV II

Pillar box. 1866-79. Designed by JW Penfold. Manufactured by Cochrane Grove Company of Dudley. Cast-iron. Hexagonal letter box with elaborate leaf decoration crest and lettering `VR'. Cheltenham has 8 of the 64 Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes reputed to remain in the country. There are other examples of the type in Bayshill Road (qv) and College Lawn (qv), Evesham Road (qv), Lansdown Road (qv), Montpellier Walk (qv), Pittville Circus Road (qv) and St Paul's Road. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 99; Chatwin A: Cheltenham's Ornamental Ironwork: Cheltenham: 1975-1984: 68-9).



Listing NGR: SO9397021980

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474602
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Sources

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Chatwin, A, Cheltenhams Ornamental Ironwork, (1975-1984), 68-69

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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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