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The Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Broadway, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0358 / 52°2'9"N

Longitude: -1.8615 / 1°51'41"W

OS Eastings: 409594

OS Northings: 237501

OS Grid: SP095375

Mapcode National: GBR 3M6.B67

Mapcode Global: VHB17.P375

Plus Code: 9C4W24PQ+89

Entry Name: The Post Office

Listing Date: 31 July 1970

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1288351

English Heritage Legacy ID: 399960

ID on this website: 101288351

Location: Broadway, Wychavon, Worcestershire, WR12

County: Worcestershire

District: Wychavon

Civil Parish: Broadway

Built-Up Area: Broadway

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Broadway

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description


SP 0937 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side)
8/75 No 25
(The Post Office)
31.7.70
GV II
Post office. 1899 by Guy Dawber, with earlier remains. Limestone rubble
with stone slate roof. Left-hand part of facade of one storey with attic.
On the ground floor are two timber casement windows of three lights with
leaded glazing and flat stone arches. The attic is lit by a 3-light rebated
and chamfered mullioned window within a dormer. To the left an entrance to
a passage has a chamfered surround with canted head. The right-hand part
of the facade is gabled and of two storeys with attic. To the left it has
a slightly bowed two-storey timber projection which has on each storey a
cornice above a 5-light window with moulded mullions. Above the lower cornice
is a rendered panel. To the right there is a 4-light rebated and chamfered
stone mullioned window with hood on the ground and first floor. The attic
is lit by a similar 3-light window. Door, to right of bowed projection,
has chamfered surround. The gabled is coped and has a finial. Chimneys
to left of front gable and at right. Both have tabling and moulded cornices.
(Gray, A Stuart; Edwardian Architecture; A Biographical Dictionary, London,
1985, p 161).


Listing NGR: SP0959437501

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