Fluted Letter Box in Grounds of Colesgrove Manor
FLUTED LETTER BOX IN GROUNDS OF COLESGROVE MANOR, HALSTEAD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245242
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Fluted Letter Box in Grounds of Colesgrove Manor
- Statutory Address:
- FLUTED LETTER BOX IN GROUNDS OF COLESGROVE MANOR, HALSTEAD HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245242
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Fluted Letter Box in Grounds of Colesgrove Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLUTED LETTER BOX IN GROUNDS OF COLESGROVE MANOR, HALSTEAD HILL
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:
- FLUTED LETTER BOX IN GROUNDS OF COLESGROVE MANOR, HALSTEAD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Broxbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33284 02558
Details
TL3302SW CHESHUNT HALSTEAD HILL, Goffs Oaks
(Northeast, Off)
40/4/10014 Fluted Letter Box in Grounds of Colesgrove Manor
II
Pillar Box - a unique Fluted Giant' made in 1855-6 by Smith and Hawkes of Birmingham to design of Post Office Architect Mr. Edge. Cast Iron, painted red. Fluted shaft, with vertical opening and frieze inscribed POST OFFICE'. Tall domed cap topped by a crown on a tasselled cushion, the whole rising to nearly eight feet high. The survivor of only three such pillar boxes, the design subsequently dismissed on grounds of excessive cost. Originally sited either at the City end of London Bridge near the Fishmongers' Hall, or at New Street, Birmingham. Taken out of service in the 1880s, exhibited in 1890 for the penny Post Jubilee Celebrations, and loaned to curator of the National Postal Museum, who installed it at Colesgrove Manor.
Listing NGR: TL3328402558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477015
- 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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