Winton House And Lyonshall Village Store And Post Office

HEREFORD AND WORCESTER SO 35 NW Winton house and Lyonshall Village Store and Post 4/98 Office

GV II

House,now partly shop and post office.C16 or earlier,extended in late C16 and/or C17 and again in C18 or C19.Timber frame with plastered panels,Ground floor rendered and exposed stone.Slate roof with gable end and hipped cross-wing;concrete tiles at rear.Painted stone stack at gable end with brick shaft.

L-shaped on plan;the main range on left (Winton House) is probably the original house and the cross-wing (Village Store) on right is circa late C16 or C17 addition,extended in rear later in C17 or early C18 and extended again as a cottage in circa C18 or Cl9.Outshut behind main range.

2 storeys.Asymmetrical north west front.Main range of 6 bays of larger framing with studs,rendered on ground floor,second bay from left has no rail and may be a blocked window.Slightly projecting hipped roof crosswing on right with close studded first floor jettied out over moulded bressumer and underbuilt in rendered stone.C20 casements on left.Circa C19 12-pane sash on first floor of cross-wing with fielded panel door below with C20 canopy.Similar canopy over paneled door on left. 12-pane sashes on left hand gable end and right side of cross- wing which has close studded first floor with tension braces and canted bay on right.Lower range to rear (south-east) of cross-wing with brick lateral stack and doorway with 4-pane sash to left and loft door to right.At rear main range roof carried down as a catslide over rear outshut and 12-pane sash on side of cross-wing. INTERIOR:Only shop front room (cross-wing)inspected;has circa late C17 or early C18 moulded plaster cornice with oak leaf decoration and eared architrave doorcase.

Listing NGR: SO3373655536