Post Office With Two Adjoining Cottages
POST OFFICE WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183310
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office With Two Adjoining Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183310
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office With Two Adjoining Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES, 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.
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 WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 26524 85071
Details
ASHBURY. HIGH STREET SU28NE (South side) 5/27 Post Office with 2 adjoining 10/11/52 cottages. (Formerly listed as shop with two cottages adjoining on SW corner of junction of Ashbury Hill with Icknield Way)
GV II
Cottages, now shop (left) and cottage (right). Mid-late C18. Flemish bond brick to left; uncoursed chalk and sarsen rubble with chalk bands to right; old tiled roof to left, thatched to right; brick stacks. Single-unit plan to left with two-unit plan to right. Single storey to left, 1 1/2-storey to right, 4-window range. Central C20 door to left; C20 door to left side of cottage on right. Late C19 canted bay windows flank door to left; C20 casements and canted bay to right; left side wall has C18 canted bay window with moulded cornice. Dentilled eaves to left; half-hipped roof; central ridge stack. Interior: some mutilated beams exposed, 2-bay roof to right is obscurred. Mid- late C18 wing to rear left: brick random band walling, corrugated iron roof, segmental arches over C20 doors and casements.
Listing NGR: SU2653285074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250654
- 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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