GRIMWOODS (FORMER POST OFFICE)
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1306817
Date first listed: 29-Jul-1988
Statutory Address: GRIMWOODS (FORMER POST OFFICE), THE STREET
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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
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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
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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.
End of official listing