POST OFFICE

POST OFFICE, ST JAMES STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306756
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE, ST JAMES STREET

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Date:: 2001-10-10
Reference:: IOE01/05818/02
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306756
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: POST OFFICE, ST JAMES STREET

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:: POST OFFICE, ST JAMES STREET

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Castle Hedingham
National Grid Reference:: TL7853835538

Details

TL 78 35 8/119 21 6 62

CASTLE HEDINGHAM ST. JAMES STREET (SOUTH SIDE) Post Office (formerly listed as House and Post Office)

GV II

Shop with accommodation over. C17 or earlier with C18 and later additions and alterations. Timber framed and plastered with batten decoration to first floor, rose and leaf paterae and cruciform pargetted bands. Red tiled roof, hipped to road with 2 red brick chimney stacks, that to rear with attached square shafts. Moulded eaves cornice. 3 storeys and cellars. 2 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. Flat leaded roof to bay shop window with moulded cornice. Small paned glazed door with 3 lights over. Approached by 3 steps with iron post and handrail.

Listing NGR: TL7853835538

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Legacy System number:: 114634
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.