Old Cottage Post Boys

OLD COTTAGE, OLD COMMON COBHAM

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1191624
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Old Cottage Post Boys
Statutory Address:
OLD COTTAGE, OLD COMMON COBHAM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1191624
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Old Cottage Post Boys
Statutory Address 1:
OLD COTTAGE, OLD COMMON COBHAM
Statutory Address 2:
POST BOYS, OLD COMMON COBHAM

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:
OLD COTTAGE, OLD COMMON COBHAM
Statutory Address:
POST BOYS, OLD COMMON COBHAM

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 10804 61024

Details

TQ 16SW BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE OLD COMMON

Cobham

5/ 328 Post Boys and Old Cottage

II

Cottage row. Early C18. Brick on rendered plinth with plain tiled roof, ridge stacks to centre and left and end stack to right. 2 storeys with brick band over ground floor and brick dentil eaves. 5 casement windows across the first floor, ground floor windows to right under gauged brick heads, windows to left under cambered heads. Half-glazed door to left (Post Boys) under flat porch hood on scroll brackets. Half glazed double doors to right (old Cottage) in C20 gabled brick porch. 2 wing to rear at right angles to front. Wing to left, tile hung with hipped roof. Wing to right C20.

Listing NGR: TQ1080461024

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
286898
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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