The Old Post Office
THE OLD POST OFFICE, 100, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237616
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, 100, MAIN ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00273/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237616
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, 100, MAIN 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:
- THE OLD POST OFFICE, 100, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Danbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7769705401
Details
TL 70 NE
10/952
DANBURY
The following buildings shall be added:
Main Road
(North side)
No 100 (The Old Post Office)
II
House. Late C16/early C17, with late C19 alterations and extensions. Render
over timber frame; gabled old tile roof, with pantiles to rear outshut; late
C19 brickleft end and rear lateral stacks. 2 unit plan, with late C19 brick
outshut and extension to rear; late C19 wing added to front. One storey and
attic; 2 window range. Late C19 four-panelled (2 glazed) door to centre, with
trellised porch. Late C19 three-light casements; gabled half-dormers with
bargeboards; 2 light casement over door. Late C19 one-storey right-angled brick
extension to right; late C19 two-storey extension and outshut to rear.
Interior: C19 plank doors; cased beam to right; chamfered beam with stepped
run-out stops. Exposed timber framing with jowled storey posts braced to
chamfered tie beam; no access to roof space. The right-hand room of this house
functioned as the village post office between 1875 and 1931.
Listing NGR: TL7769705401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428970
- 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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