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Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2101 / 52°12'36"N

Longitude: 0.1158 / 0°6'56"E

OS Eastings: 544664

OS Northings: 258990

OS Grid: TL446589

Mapcode National: GBR L79.D3D

Mapcode Global: VHHK2.YQL2

Plus Code: 9F426468+38

Entry Name: Post Office

Listing Date: 26 April 1950

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1331875

English Heritage Legacy ID: 47580

ID on this website: 101331875

Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Cambridge

Electoral Ward/Division: Castle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Cambridge

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Cambridge The Ascension

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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Description


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

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