May Trees Post Office
MAY TREES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123927
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- May Trees Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- MAY TREES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123927
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- May Trees Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAY TREES
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE
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:
- MAY TREES
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53658 11189
Details
TL 51 SW MATCHING MATCHING GREEN May Trees and 3/74 Post Office
GV II
House, late C17, altered in C18 and C20, partly converted to a shop and Post Office. Timber framed, front elevation faced with red bricks, Flemish bond, remainder plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned NW-SE with central staircase hall, internal chimney stack at SE gable. Lean-to extension to rear, C18, and further lean-to extension beyond that, C20. Single storey extension to NW, built as a shop, C20, which now includes the NW ground floor room of the house. Flat-roofed conservatory to SE. 2 storeys. Central door with tiled gabled porch, casement window to each side, 3 casement windows on first floor, all C20. Framing of original rear wall partly exposed internally. Axial chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops in SE bay, joists plastered to soffits. Hearth in this room of semi-circular shape internally, of red bricks and lime mortar. There was an equivalent chimney stack at the NW gable, but this was removed when the room was converted to a shop. Originally this house was of one storey with attics. In the C18 the walls were raised by approx. 1.5 metres and the clasped purlin roof rebuilt re- using the original timbers, and largely in the original form. The top of the E corner post is visible a little above floor level, and the original wall plates are perceptible through the interior plaster.
Listing NGR: TL5365811189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118180
- 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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