Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office)
VINE HOUSE AND WESTMILL STORES (POST OFFICE), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295972
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office)
- Statutory Address:
- VINE HOUSE AND WESTMILL STORES (POST OFFICE), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295972
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office)
- Statutory Address 1:
- VINE HOUSE AND WESTMILL STORES (POST OFFICE), HIGH 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:
- VINE HOUSE AND WESTMILL STORES (POST OFFICE), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westmill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36823 27111
Details
Westmill village TL 3627 WESTMILL HIGH STREET (north side)
8/8 Vine House and Westmill Stores (PO) 22.2.67 (formerly listed as (The Post Office)
GV II
House, now house with shop. C18/C19, shopfront c1864, altered in Queen Anne style 1900 (on rainwater head). Red brick with old red tile roof. A 2-storeys house facing S, adjoining The Dial House on the E. Internal gable chimney on W: external gable chimney on E with tumbled brick offsets. S front is faced in English-bond with heavy wooden modillioned cornice returned at ends with triangular pediment following verge. 3 windows to 1st floor. Slightly recessed box sashes with 6/6 panes and moulded architrave. Similar window on left of central half-glazed panelled door with pilasters, moulded architrave and moulded hood on shaped brackets. Regency style original shopfront with small- paned bow window and door on right, slender panelled pilasters and entablature with deep fascia. Plastered stall-riser. (Ewing (1928) 122 and photos before and after c1900).
Listing NGR: TL3682327111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ewing, G, Westmill: The Story of a Hertfordshire Village, (1928), 122
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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