Grimwoods (Former Post Office)
GRIMWOODS (FORMER POST OFFICE), THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306817
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Grimwoods (Former Post Office)
- Statutory Address:
- GRIMWOODS (FORMER POST OFFICE), THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306817
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Grimwoods (Former Post Office)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRIMWOODS (FORMER POST OFFICE), THE 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:
- GRIMWOODS (FORMER POST OFFICE), THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cressing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79286 20706
Details
CRESSING THE STREET TL 72 SE (west side)
1/67 Grinwoods (former Post Office)
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as P.O. House. Early C18, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing S (gable end to street) with axial stack to right of centre, forming a lobby-entrance, and original full-length lean-to to rear, forming a catslide roof. One storey with attics. 3-window range of mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights. Near-central CL9 door. The right return (facing the street) has a CL9 splayed shop window, a flush 4-panel door with moulded surround and simple flat canopy, and one C19 casement in the lean-to. The rear elevation has one C19 horizontal sash of 9 + 9 lights, 2 CL9 casements and a plain boarded door. Deeply chamfered axial beam in right bay. Wide wood-burning hearth facing to right, disused; wide wood-burning hearth facing to left, reduced for C20 grate. Primary straight bracing, including re-used timber. Original stair in rear lean-to. C19 corner cupboard in rear right corner of left ground-floor room, door removed. All original internal battened doors present. This house was formerly weatherboarded; it is prototypical of the New England 'saltbox houses'.
Listing NGR: TL7928620706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116391
- 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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