Pembridge Post Office And Stores

PEMBRIDGE CP MARKET PLACE SO 3858 - 3958

10/72 Pembridge Post Office and Stores

GV II*

House, now post office and shop retaining part of earlier hall. C14 core, extensively remodelled during C17 and late C19. Timber-framed with part wattle-and-daub and part painted brick infill on sandstone rubble plinth; later painted brick additions; Welsh slate and part corrugated metal roof. Irregular plan, generally two parallel ranges aligned east/west with southern wing retaining three bays of a C14 building; lateral and axial stacks, present entrance with shop frontage to east. Two storeys. East front: two gables with canted left-hand side, single vertical glazing bar sash windows, large 9-pane windows with pilastered surrounds flank central partly-glazed door. Interior reveals a section of the large square panelled framing of the earlier structure with one quatrefoiled panel remaining. In the roof there are two (and possibly three) trusses with cusped principals and cusped collar-beams, one also has decorative raking struts; cusped wind-braces to purlins. Enclosed within a later addition to the north side is a wooden ogee-headed doorway with mouchettes and shields in trefoils.

Listing NGR: SO3901358084