Description

GREAT GADDESDEN PIPERS HILL
TL 01 SW
(North side)
3/115 Wall with posting box
- outside Glebe House

GV II

Wall with posting box. C18 wall, posting box 1861 (of the earliest type
of wallbox used in this county, only 2 remain, here and at Hexton
c.1860) of the type in use by Post Office 1859-1861. By Smith and Hawkes
of Birmingham. Cast iron, painted red, set in short red brick roadside
wall, about 1.5m high. Narrow box front 10 inches wide x 30 inches tall.
Pedimented top with hood bearing the words 'POST OFFICE'. Small aperture
under hood has metal flap and 'LETTER BOX' on lower rim. Door divided
into 3 horizontal panels; upper one has royal cipher 'VR' with crown and
the words 'CLEARED AT'; blank middle panel for impermanent gunned or
painted table; the lower contains the lock. Large fixed panel below door
with maker's name at bottom. (Branch Johnson (1970) 135).

Listing NGR: TL0275411115

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26394423

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)