Church Cottages Post Office

CHURCH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156147
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:
Church Cottages Post Office
Statutory Address:
CHURCH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156147
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:
Church Cottages Post Office
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
POST OFFICE, HIGH 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
POST OFFICE, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hurley
National Grid Reference:
SU 82608 83817

Details

SU 8283 -8383 HURLEY HIGH STREET (east side)

18/2 Post Office. Nos. 1 and 2 25.3.55 (Church Cottages)

G.V. II

Row of 3 cottages, now post office and 2 cottages. C17, C19, altered C20. Part timber frame with painted brick infill, part painted brick. Old tile gabled roof. Rectangular plan, probably of 3 framed bays. One and a half storeys. One large ridge chimney in centre with offset head and clay pots. 3 gabled dormers facing road with one 2-light (on right) and two 3-light leaded casements. 4 windows below, with glazing bars: on the left a double sash shop window, in the centre a sash, to right of this a horizontal sliding sash and similar but larger sash on right end. Between this window and the next on the left is a plank door with segmental-arched head. There is a similar door on the right of the shop window. The shop entry is on the north (left) gable, together with an early C20 shop window.

Listing NGR: SU8260883817

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
40922
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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