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Latitude: 52.2109 / 52°12'39"N
Longitude: -1.6282 / 1°37'41"W
OS Eastings: 425501
OS Northings: 257028
OS Grid: SP255570
Mapcode National: GBR 5N1.96F
Mapcode Global: VHBXV.QPLH
Plus Code: 9C4W696C+9P
Entry Name: Old Post Office and Attached Reading Room/Institute
Listing Date: 18 March 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1382115
English Heritage Legacy ID: 482480
ID on this website: 101382115
Location: Hampton Lucy, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV35
County: Warwickshire
District: Stratford-on-Avon
Civil Parish: Hampton Lucy
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Hampton Lucy St Peter ad Vincula
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
Tagged with: Post office
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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