Pillar Box Surmounted By Gas Lamp Adjacent to Number 31
PILLAR BOX SURMOUNTED BY GAS LAMP ADJACENT TO NUMBER 31, TOAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253187
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pillar Box Surmounted By Gas Lamp Adjacent to Number 31
- Statutory Address:
- PILLAR BOX SURMOUNTED BY GAS LAMP ADJACENT TO NUMBER 31, TOAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253187
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pillar Box Surmounted By Gas Lamp Adjacent to Number 31
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILLAR BOX SURMOUNTED BY GAS LAMP ADJACENT TO NUMBER 31, TOAD LANE
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:
- PILLAR BOX SURMOUNTED BY GAS LAMP ADJACENT TO NUMBER 31, TOAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 89563 13574
Details
SD 8913NE TOAD LANE (West side) 10/133 Pillar Box surmounted by Gas Lamp adjacent to No. 31
GV II
Pillar box surmounted by gas lamp. Box dated 1866; by Cochrane Glove and Co. Lamp of similar date but attached later. Both box and lamp are resited. Cast iron. Pillar box is cylindrical on base with letters stating 'COCHRANE GLOVE & Co /WOODSIDE WORKS/ DUDLEY 1866' The box is without royal cipher and has annulets and horizontal slit beneath hexagonal cap. Bolted on top of the box is the gas lamp with gadrooned-vase foot from which rises a fluted shaft with foliated capital; hexagonal lantern with turned finial. The box itself is a particularly rare survival, another example is illustrated in: H Aaron, Pillar to Post, 1982, p.108.
Listing NGR: SD8956313574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358993
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Aaron, H, Pillar to Post, (1982), 108
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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