THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS

THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS, MAIN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271216
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-2001
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271216
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-2001
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS, MAIN ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD POST OFFICE WITH ATTACHED PLINTH AND GATE PIERS, MAIN ROAD

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
Parish:: Betley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 75389 48529

Details

SJ7548 1580/10/10006

BETLEY MAIN ROAD The Old Post Office with attached plinth and gate piers 12-FEB-01

GV II House. Early/mid C18, adapted as a bakery c1870. Altered c1880 by Robert Griffiths for Thomas Fletcher Twemlow as part of a scheme to standardise the buildings of the Betley estate. Early, mid and late C20 additions and alterations.

Red brick with plain tile roof. Single gable and two ridge coped brick stacks. Plinth. Three storeys; four bays. Windows are mainly C19 three-light casements with segmental heads. To right, square bay window, c1903, with four-light cross casement and integral porch with six-panel door and overlight. Modillion wooden eaves and turned balustrade to balcony. To left, two windows. Above, an off-centre blank, flanked to left by two windows and to right by a French window in the same style. Above, three windows. At the rear, a full-width lean-to, C19, with mid C20 flat roofed addition above the former ovens in the centre. C19 segment headed windows to ground floor and second floor right.

INTERIOR: Central ground floor room has two chamfered spine beams and brick hearth with bressummer with stops. Room to right has chamfered span beam and exposed joists, and incorporates former side passage. First floor has chamfered and plain beams, one with a stop, and C19 hob grate. Second floor refitted late C20, with several late C18 board doors.

OUTSIDE: Chamfered blue brick plinth, formerly with railing, across the full width. Pair of square brick gate piers with pyramidal stone caps.

Listing NGR: SJ7538948529

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Legacy System number:: 486948
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.