Post Office

The Post Office in Witton-le-Wear is a house and shop with a loft, built around 1840. It is constructed from roughly-squared coursed rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and two wide bays. The shop is located in the right bay and includes a central four-panel door with an overlight, flanked by windows that have three rows of three large panes. These are framed by Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. To the right of the first bay, there is another four-panel door under an overlight with a flat stone lintel, along with plain sash windows with flat stone lintels on each floor of the first bay. Above the shop, there is a partly-glazed boarded loft door with a flat stone lintel and a projecting stone sill. The low-pitched roof has end chimneys. A cast iron low-relief street nameplate is positioned at the centre sill level on the first floor, and there is a wooden painted sign that reads 'Witton-le-Wear Post Office' at the right end over the shop.