Hamsterley Post Office
HAMSTERLEY POST OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322776
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hamsterley Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- HAMSTERLEY POST OFFICE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322776
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hamsterley Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMSTERLEY POST OFFICE
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:
- HAMSTERLEY POST OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hamsterley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11867 31081
Details
HAMSTERLEY HAMSTERLEY NYll3l 23/68 Hamsterley Post Office GV II House with attached outbuildings, part now Post Office. Probably mid C18 house and early C19 outbuildings. Coursed sandstone rubble, the house with quoins; ashlar dressings. Roof Welsh slate on house, with stone gable copings, and pantiles on outbuildings; brick chimneys. House 2 storeys, 2 bays; Post Office one storey, 2 bays, the second lower. House has C20 door in plain stone surround at right; late C19 sashes with flat stone lintels and sills at left and above door, the latter narrower. Outbuildings, attached at right, have boarded Dutch door in right bay, with wall letter-box at right, and large late Cl9 sash with flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill in left bay.
House has end chimneys; end chimney at right end of higher outbuilding.
Listing NGR: NZ1186731081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111870
- 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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