Post Office Stores
POST OFFICE STORES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147129
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Stores
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE STORES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147129
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE STORES, THE STREET
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 STORES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield Peverel
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78830 11661
Details
TL 7811-7911 HATFIELD PEVEREL THE STREET (north side)
12/78 Post Office Stores
GV II
House, converted to cottages, now house and shop. C16 or earlier, altered in C17 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Complex plan comprising main range facing SE, 2-bay crosswing to right with C17 rear extension, and C18 extension to right of crosswing. Left end of hall range now roofed as a crosswing. 2 internal stacks in this front range. At left end, C17 wing extending to rear with axial stack: C19 parallel range behind main range, with stack at left end. 2 C20 single-storey lean-to extensions in rear angle. 2 storeys. Ground floor, C19 shopfront standing forward, one C20 sash, one C20 casement. 3 C20 doors, the middle one with early C19 pedimented hood on scrolled brackets. First floor, 4 C20 sashes, one C20 casement. The right crosswing has an underbuilt jetty. 2 gables. The earliest part of the present complex is the crosswing near the right end, which has a chamfered binding beam with plain stops, jowled posts, cambered central tiebeam, and probably a crownpost roof (inaccessible). Moulded axial beam in hall range, to right of main stack, and chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops to left, and similar transverse beams in rear wing at left end. Most of the timber structure is concealed by plaster.
Listing NGR: TL7883011661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115419
- 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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