The Old Post Office, Front And Rear Walls, Gate Piers And Garage

NZ 2019 SUMMERHOUSE SUMMERHOUSE (North Side off) 14/86 The Old Post Office, front and rear walls, 20/3/67 gate piers and garage (formerly listed as Post Office,Laurel Dene) II Shown on O.S. map as Post Office, Laurel Dene. Former Post Office now private house; front garden wall and gate piers; rear wall and former shed now garage. House probably C18 with alterations; mid-late C19 walls, piers and garage. House pebble-dashed masonry, renewed pantiled roof and brick chimney stacks. Rubble walls and ashlar piers. Coursed rubble garage with renewed pantiled roof. House 2 storeys, 2 windows. Openings altered in mid C19. Central door, with 4 faceted panels and 2-pane overlight, in moulded surround under hoodmould. 4-pane sashes, with intermediate glazing bars removed, have projecting sills and scalloped wedge lintels. Steeply-pitched roof has slightly-swept eaves, coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks. Boarded door and fixed 24-pane shop window on left return. Short 2-storey rear wing has replaced double doors, fixed 6-pane light and boarded first-floor opening. Tall L-plan rear wall links wing to small garage with replaced double doors and low-pitched roof. Low front garden wall with raking return sections to house. Central pair of gate piers with enriched pyramidal caps; similar end piers.

Listing NGR: NZ2021819174