Post Office
POST OFFICE, 25, MAGDALENE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331875
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 25, MAGDALENE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331875
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 25, MAGDALENE STREET
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:
- POST OFFICE, 25, MAGDALENE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44664 58990
Details
MAGDALENE STREET 1. 942 (South-west Side) No 25 (Post Office) TL 4458 NE 3/93 26.4.50. II GV 2. Early C17. 3 storeys, timber-framed and plastered, with some exposed timbers; both storeys project; carriage-way left ground floor with old panelled gates; 1st floor 2 semi-hexagonal oriel windows, 2nd floor 2 sash windows, all with glazing bars. Ground floor right end post with tapering pilaster surmounted by grotesque figure supporting projecting upper storey; similar grotesque right of carriage-way; 1st floor with tapering Ionic pilasters on end and middle posts supporting grotesque figures below projecting 2nd floor; remains of end posts on top floor. Some original internal features. (RCHM 205). Nos 13 to 18 (consec) and Nos 20 to 31 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL4466458990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
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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