The Old Post Office

SO 29 NE 8/70

CHIRBURY C.P. PRIESTWESTON The Old Post Office

(Formerly listed as Old Post Office, Priestweston)

21.3.68

GV II Shown on O.S. map as Red Lion Inn. House, latterly inn then post office, now reverted to domestic accommodation. Late C17 with later additions and alterations. Limewashed uncoursed limestone rubble, graded slate roof.

One storey and attic; three late C19 casements to ground floor and gabled half-dormers with metal casements directly above; two boarded doors alternate with ground-floor windows, right with glazed panel inserted, now behind late C20 brick and glass porch (not of special architectural interest); external end stack to left and internal end stack to right, both with red brick shafts and toothed capping. Short, probably contemporary range at right-angles to rear on left.

Interior: not inspected but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SO2908297347