The Old Post House
THE OLD POST HOUSE, 18, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331397
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POST HOUSE, 18, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331397
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Post House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POST HOUSE, 18, THE GREEN
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:
- THE OLD POST HOUSE, 18, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eltisley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27145 59796
Details
TL 2659-2759 ELTISLEY THE GREEN (North Side)
11/126 No. 18 (The Old Post House)
GV II
House. Late C15 with early C17 and C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber-framed with C20 pargetted cement render, plain tile roofs hipped to left hand with gablet. Single storeyed open hall and service bay to right hand with jettied crosswing to left hand. (qv Manor Farmhouse and Green Farmhouse). Chimney stack with baking oven inserted into cross passage, and hall and service bay chambered over in C17. Single storey extension to right hand gable, C17, timber-framed and pantiled. Ridge stack and side stack to left hand with rebuilt upper courses. C18 panelled door in original cross passage position, four ground floor, and four attic and first floor C20 casement windows. Interior: Exposed timber-frame, and floor frames showing clearly C17 rebuilding, insertions and original openings. One three-light diamond mullioned window in crosswing with shutter groove. Side purlin roofs with rafters over the hall smoke blackened.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p95, mon. 9, plate 98
Listing NGR: TL2714559796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51161
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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