1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310720
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310720
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
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:
- 1 AND 2, POST OFFICE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80312 20711
Details
SP 8020 WHITCHURCH POST OFFICE LANE
9/233 Nos. 1 and 2 (formerly listed as Cottage 60 yards W, of Chandos Arms Public House)
21.12.67 _ II
Pair of houses, formerly one. C17, refronted mid C18, later alterations. 2 bays to left of S. front are of vitreous brick with red brick quoins, window surrounds and moulded plinth. Gabled bay of crosswing to right has rubble stone ground floor and C20 brick above. Rear is of coursed rubble stone. Old tile roof, brick chimneys to left, between right bays, and to rear of cross wing. L-plan. 2 storeys, attic and cellar, 3 bays. 2 bays to left have 3-light barred wooden casements, those to ground floor C20 in altered openings. Small cellar window to left. C20 paired leaded casement to right over C20 door in lobby entry; blind window panel between left bays over another door with segmental head and stone keyblock. Right bay has C20 3-light leaded casements with segmental heads to main floors, similar 2-light casement to attic, and stone tablet above. N. side has projecting bay to left, the gable end having an external stone chimney stack, part rendered, with 2 diagonal shafts, partly of thin brick. Gable also has 2 rows of square dovecote holes with stone ledges. Right return wall is altered and is mostly of brick with moulded brick sill below upper window. C20 lean-to to centre of right bays. Interior is said to contain C17 staircase with heavy turned balusters. RCHM II p. 326 Mon. 7.
Listing NGR: SP8030420708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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