POST OFFICE WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES

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
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE WITH TWO ADJOINING COTTAGES, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 250654
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.