Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage
CHURCH VIEW, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330592
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH VIEW, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330592
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH VIEW, SCHOOL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, MIDDLE 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:
- CHURCH VIEW, SCHOOL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, MIDDLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldford and Saighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4187359383
Details
SJ 45 NW
6/19
ALDFORD C.P.
MIDDLE LANE
(West side)
Post Office and attached Cottage (Church View, School Lane)
II
GV
Post Office (with dwelling) and attached cottage (School Lane),
probably circa 1870, for the 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster,
possibly by John Douglas; simplified Jacobean. Brown brick, with blue
diapering to upper storey. Red tile gabled roof with a simply shaped
central chimney on the ridge and one plain corner chimney. The
windows have small-pane iron casements in doubly bevelled stone
surrounds with bevelled mullions. The post office window (of 8
lights) is also transomed. Two half-dormers with raking roofs. One
and a half storeys; the upper projects slightly, carried on a
dentilled brick string.
Interiors not inspected.
Listed for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ 41873 59383
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55214
- 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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