Post Office
56, ASH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294827
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 56, ASH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02165/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294827
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, ASH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE, ASH STREET
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:
- 56, ASH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, ASH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ash
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 89065 50368
Details
SU 85SE ASH C.P. ASH STREET
(South side) 3/5 No.56 and Post Office (formerly listed as Ash Post Office) 4.5.70
II
House, extended and divided and now part shop. Late C16 with C20 extensions projecting to front left. Timber framed with whitewashed, render, cladding, whitewashed brick extensions. Plain tiled roof with flat, felt, roof over extension. Two storeys with cross wing to right end. Re-built multiple ridge stack to right of centre. Two small casement windows to first floor left, one three light, diamond-pane, leaded casement window to first floor right. Similar window to ground floor right. Planked door to centre of cross wing under gabled porch on thin wooden supports. Plate glass shop windows in single storey extension to left with glazed doors to centre and left end. Right hand return front; some small section of framing visible. Glazed porch to centre. Wing at right angles to rear left.
Listing NGR: SU8906550368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288066
- 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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