The Post Office Woodcroft
THE POST OFFICE, ASHBOCKING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250933
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office Woodcroft
- Statutory Address:
- THE POST OFFICE, ASHBOCKING ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09216/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250933
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Post Office Woodcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POST OFFICE, ASHBOCKING ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WOODCROFT, ASHBOCKING ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- WOODCROFT, 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 POST OFFICE, ASHBOCKING ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WOODCROFT, ASHBOCKING ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WOODCROFT, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 15809 51377
Details
HENLEY ASHBOCKING ROAD TM 15 SE 4/115 Woodcroft, and The Post - Office, Main Roaa - II House and part of post office; originally one house. Early or mid C16 with alterations of C17 and later. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Hipped concrete plaintiled roof with 2 axial chimneys of red brick. Mainly C20 casements. Gabled C20 entrance porch to Woodcroft, with battened and boarded door. Probably a house of 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan; the Post Office contains the former parlour and chamber above. There is evidence for a possible original smoke-bay between hall and parlour; in the latter is a crenellated mantel beam, and in the former is a large open fireplace with cambered lintel which is clearly inserted. The original studwork and upper floor structure is heavy and plain; evidence for shuttered windows with square mullions. A datestone 1687 in the cellar probably relates to a chimney added to the service end, and to the butt-purlin roof which reuses the components of the previous roof. The village wheelwright is believed to have lived here down to the C19, when an outshut was added to the rear.
Listing NGR: TM1580951377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433477
- 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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