The Old Post House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

HASKETON SHRUBBERY ROAD TM 25 SW (South side) 2/115 The Old Post House II House. Early C17 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber- framed with colourwashed render and a plain-tile roof. Two storeys, 3-cell baffle-entry plan. Entrance front: to left of centre is a projecting canted porch with a hipped roof, probably C19 with a central C20 door of 4 panels. To left of these are a 3-light and a single-light casement at ground floor level and to right two 3-light and two single-light casements.

To the first floor are three 3-light and one single-light casements. To the ridge at left of centre above the porch is an axial stack of 2 flues and to the right hand gable end is a further similar stack. Extending at right is a C19 or C20 outbuilding, now having two sets of double doors and serving as a garage block. Rear: outshut extending across the whole of the ground floor with a lean-to pantile roof. To the first floor at far right is one C17 window of 6 lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and to left of this is one 4-light window, the lights being divided by wide mullions, and a 3-light window at far left. The right hand gable end has a brick chimney stack showing to the lower body in English bond brick, which is battered.

The left hand gable end has, to the ground floor, a 2-light and a single- light casement and to the first floor a central 2-light window with 2-light C17 windows at either side of it each having ovolo-moulded surround.

Interior: three ground floor timber-framed rooms with close studding to the walls, passing braces, jowled wall posts, chamfered ceiling beams with run- out end stops. Chamfered bressumers to two hearths. Blocked doorway and two,blocked windows with diamond-section mullions. Winder staircase with original solid treads leading up from the lobby to the first floor.

Further jowled wall posts and close studding to the first floor.

Listing NGR: TM2511349814

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2192 IOE Records taken by Robert Whitehouse; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Robert Whitehouse. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project