THE POST OFFICE WITH HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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THE POST OFFICE WITH HOUSE IMMEDIATELY WEST, WEST STREET

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ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (North side)

7/84 The Post Office with house immediately west 4.2.58

GV II

House and shop in row. C18, extended in C19. Ham stone cut and squared, with rendered brickwork to extension; double Roman clay tiled roof between high coped gables suggesting former thatch; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys: 3 + 3 bays. House has 16-pane sash windows with exposed boxes in plain openings with voussoired flat-arched heads, but to lower bay 2 a single-storey angled bay window of B + 20 + 8 panes, having lead flat roof. To lower bay 3 a six-panel door with toplights in plain opening under timber hood on wrought-iron brackets. The shop projects in bays 1 and 2 under catslide roof with hipped returns: 16-pane sash windows to both bays, which have rounded corners at this level; to ground floor a C19 shopfront with square bay windows of 4 + 8 + 2 panes flanking part-glazed door in half-depth recess; continuous slim fascia across front and to returns. Bay 3, which is also rendered, has a small casement window above and pair of timber garage doors below. Interior only seen in shop, which has a chamfered ceiling beam: reported is a 3-room cross passage plan, with two hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in rear; bay 3 of the shop may represent a former throughway: roof has collar truss frame. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, July 1977).

Listing NGR: ST4193812606

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in July, (1977)

National Grid Reference: ST 41938 12606

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