Village Post Office and Club
VILLAGE POST OFFICE AND CLUB, THORNTON COMMON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185678
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Village Post Office and Club
- Statutory Address:
- VILLAGE POST OFFICE AND CLUB, THORNTON COMMON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185678
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Village Post Office and Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLAGE POST OFFICE AND CLUB, THORNTON COMMON 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:
- VILLAGE POST OFFICE AND CLUB, THORNTON COMMON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 30492 80942
Details
BEBINGTON THORNTON COMMON ROAD SJ 3080 (south side) Thornton Hough 16/260 Village Post Office and Club
G.V. II
Shop and club. c.1904. By Grayson and Ould. Timber frame on stone base, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys, U-plan with screen between wings. Wings have jettied gabled 1st floors with quatrefoil panels. Ground floor has large 4-light canted bay windows, segmental heads to lights, 1st floor has 5-light leaded casements. Returns are gabled, inner returns have Tudor-head entrances with doors with vertical strips and strap hinges. Screen wall has stone slate roof, central entrance with coving over with lettering: "VILLAGE CLUB", flanking canopies to entrances. Courtyard has central flat roofed projections, possibly later, 5-light flat-topped dormer behind. Several stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ3049280942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 215595
- 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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