Former Post Office and Post Master's House

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SE 9264-9364 17/33

SLEDMERE CROOME ROAD (west side) Post Office House Former Post Office and Post Master's House

(Formerly listed as Post Office and Post Master's House, CROOM LANE)

GV II Former post office and post master's house. c1890 with later additions and alterations. By John Birch for Sir Tatton Sykes, fifth Baronet. Reddish-orange brick in English garden wall bond with plain tile roof. Approximately T-shaped on plan with infil to rear. Single bay range with single bay cross wing to right of single storey with attic to gables. Chamfered plinth. Entrance to central gabled porch, a board door with glazing to head in four-centred, moulded surround under hoodmould with label stops. Above a decorative blind oblong recess under hoodmould. Dentil barge board to gable. To left a three-light window, incorporating "GR" post box,with rubbed brick sills in ovolo-moulded surround under flat arch of rubbed brick and dripmould. To right a four-light window with wooden ovolo-moulded mullions, in ovolo-moulded surround, under flat arch of rubbed brick and with moulded drip and sill. To gable a similar three-light window. Decorative barge boards. Paired octagonal flues to large ridge stack.

Listing NGR: SE9324364884