Old Post Office Cottage
OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, BIGGS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332916
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, BIGGS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332916
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, BIGGS 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:
- OLD POST OFFICE COTTAGE, BIGGS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dinton-with-Ford and Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7638310751
Details
SP 71 SE
3/110
DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON
BIGGS LANE, Westlington
(north side)
Old Post Office Cottage
GV
II
House, formerly 3 cottages. C17, C18. Witchert on a rubblestone
plinth, colourwashed and rendered. Thatched roofs with half-hipped
gables. Letter L plan, 2 bay south range, 3 bay east range. 1½ storeys.
South range C17 with central door blocked by single light casement. Left hand
2-light leaded casement, right hand 3-light timber casement. Eaves dormer
above. Left hand eaves dormer has 3 leaded lights. Central stack of old
thin bricks, formerly a lobby entry plan house. Left gable has right hand
2-light casements and 3-light to left. Rear has door in angle with east
range under tiled hood, 2-light casements, 1 dormer. East range has
left hand door on west elevation and 5 casement windows, mostly 2-light.
Two 2-light eaves dormers. Stack between south bays. Rear or east
elevation has board door in front of stack. 4 ground floor windows and
2 eaves dormers. One window on west elevation has hood mould. Weatherboard
north gable.
Listing NGR: SP7638310751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43047
- 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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