The Old Post Office Cottage
THE OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, THE VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130612
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, THE VILLAGE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03135/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130612
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, THE VILLAGE
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:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, THE VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 46114 63428
Details
SJ 46 SE WAVERTON C.P. THE VILLAGE (West Side)
2/24 The Old Post Office Cottage
GV II
Formerly cottage and shippon, now cottage: early C18, extended late C18 with late C19 porch and rear extension. Rendered brick, original house thatched, extensions with Welsh slate roof. 1 gable brick chimney. 2-room plan with former shippon and hayloft added later. 2-storey, 4-bay front. Buttress at right end and plain band at 1st floor. 2 and 3-light wooden casements, the upper ones swept over by the thatch. Brick gabled porch with tile roof and exposed pegged truss. Door under segmental brick head behind. Interior: Entry into lobby. To left room a heavy chamfered beam with tongue stop and flat inglenook fireplace. Central winder staircase leads to bedroom with heavy exposed purlins. Tethering post and exposed beams and joists survive in 2-stall shippon.
Listing NGR: SJ4611463428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55534
- 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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