Letterbox Cottage Including Attached Post-box to North
LETTERBOX COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED POST-BOX TO NORTH, COACH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157538
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Letterbox Cottage Including Attached Post-box to North
- Statutory Address:
- LETTERBOX COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED POST-BOX TO NORTH, COACH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157538
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Letterbox Cottage Including Attached Post-box to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- LETTERBOX COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED POST-BOX TO NORTH, COACH ROAD
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:
- LETTERBOX COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED POST-BOX TO NORTH, COACH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Tytherley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 29330 29361
Details
EAST TYTHERLEY
1613/3/33 COACH ROAD
11-APR-86 EAST TYTHERLEY
LETTERBOX COTTAGE including attached p
ost-box to north
GV II
Cottage and post-box. C17 altered C18 and C20; post-box circa 1857-9. Timber-frame with rendered infill and brick encasing, old plain tile roof. End onto road 1 bay 2 storey cottage outshot on both sides. Road end has exposed frame 4-light casement over 2-light casement. At road end on R side stack, beyond 2-light casement and stable type door. Roof half-hipped. This and the Smithy (qv) are part of landscape features of E Tytherley Manor, now demolished.
Including attached post-box to north set in small rendered brick pier with tile capping; a rare survival of a post-box first introduced in 1857 and superseded in 1859 by a version having a pitched top, because the earlier model was found to leak; both types have flaps and hoods to the aperture.
Listing NGR: SU2931927832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 140880
- 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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