OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE

OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE, 40, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382115
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE
Statutory Address:: OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE, 40, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 2004-09-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382115
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE, 40, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED READING ROOM/INSTITUTE, 40, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Hampton Lucy
National Grid Reference:: SP 25501 57028

Details

HAMPTON LUCY

SP25NE CHURCH STREET 1457-1/10/59 (South side) 18/03/97 No.40 Old Post Office and attached Reading Room/Institute

GV II

House and attached reading room, now institute. c1840. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roofs with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: house of single storey with attic; 3-window range. Gabled forward break to left of centre; wide eaves and decorative bargeboards with finials. Segmental-headed openings are single-chamfered. Entrance to forward break has battened door with strap hinges and bracketed gabled canopy, canted bay window to right has hipped roof over 3 lattice-glazed lights. Carriage entrance to right end has label mould raised over blank ashlar panel and projecting C20 garage doors. Window to ground floor left end has label mould over 2-light casement with lattice glazing. First floor has similar casements to windows to gable and gabled half dormer to each side. Cross-axial stack with 2 diagonal shafts. Institute has single-storey, 3-window range, with later range attached to rear at right angles, with re-entrant porch. Front range has plain plinth and 3 segmental-headed, single-chamfered windows with stone sills, labelmoulds and 2-light frames; lateral stack to rear with 2 shafts. Right return has similar, taller, window. Porch has stone-coped parapet and straight-headed entrance with plank door and return light with label. Rear range has offset buttresses between windows with small-paned lights over inserted C20 casements. INTERIOR: not inspected. Built by the Lucy family for the use of the villagers.

Listing NGR: SP2549357021

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Legacy System number:: 482480
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.