Posting Box Built Into Front Wall Of Number 1 Ivy Cottages (Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. A Victorian Post box.
Posting Box Built Into Front Wall Of Number 1 Ivy Cottages (Post Office)
- WRENN ID
- western-bailey-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Post box
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HEXTON HEXTON TL 1030 (West side)
8/14 Posting box built into - front wall of No. 1 Ivy Cottages (Post Office)
- II
Posting box. Set up 1860, the earliest in Hertfordshire, moved to present position 1922 from wall of the Manor Lodge. Cast iron painted red. The front is a narrow rectangular upright panel 30 inches x 10 inches. Flat pedimented top: hood below with 'POST OFFICE' in raised letters: small postal aperture below hood with metal flap and on lower rim 'LETTER BOX'. Door below divided into 3 horizontal panels: top one carries the royal Cypher 'V R' with crown and the words 'CLEARED AT': the middle panel is blank for impermanent pasted or painted notices of the time(s) of clearing: the bottom panel contains the keyhole and lock. There is a large plain panel to the box below the door, and on the bottom rim the makers' name, 'SMITH AND HAWKES BIRMINGHAM'. Wall boxes were introduced in 1857. (Branch Johnson (1970)135,168: Ashley Cooper (1982)32).
Listing NGR: TL1063130629
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