Wall With Posting Box Outside Glebe House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Wall with posting box.
Wall With Posting Box Outside Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-pedestal-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Wall with posting box
- Source
- Historic England listing
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
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