Lane Hatch Post Office

LANE HATCH, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1199449
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
Lane Hatch Post Office
Statutory Address:
LANE HATCH, CHAPEL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1199449
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
Lane Hatch Post Office
Statutory Address 1:
LANE HATCH, CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address 2:
LANE HATCH, STATION ROAD
Statutory Address 3:
POST OFFICE, CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address 4:
POST OFFICE, STATION ROAD

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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:
LANE HATCH, CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address:
LANE HATCH, STATION ROAD
Statutory Address:
POST OFFICE, CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address:
POST OFFICE, STATION ROAD

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Langford
National Grid Reference:
SP2486902708

Details

LANGFORD CHAPEL LANE
SP2402-2502 (South side)
6/93 Post Office and Lane Hatch
GV II

Pair of cottages, now cottage and post office. Probably late C17 with later
additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble; stone slate roofs. 2
storeys and gable-lit attic. Three C19 casements directly below eaves with
infilled opening to right of left window. Four C19 casements and fixed-light
windows with wood lintels to ground floor; infilled doorway to right of right
window. Integral end stacks with dripstones, left with top rebuilt in C19 yellow
brick. Red brick ridge stack at junction between 2 parts (see straight joint).
Lower C20 addition to right has two 3-light mullion windows with dripstones
directly below eaves. Interior. Post Office only inspected. Chamfered spine
beams with chamfered spine beams to first floor. Several panelled and plank
doors and a C19 door with blind Gothic tracery patterns to ground floor. Oak
winder staircase from first floor to attic, which has collar truss roof with
principal rafters rising from wall tops. Single-storey C20 flat-roofed addition
to left (housing shop) and 2-storey gabled range at right-angles to rear on left
are not of special architectural interest.
[2388]


Listing NGR: SP2486902708

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
253844
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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