The Old Post Office House

KINETON

SP3250 BRIDGE STREET, Kineton 1901-1/14/95 (East side) 06/02/52 The Old Post Office House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET, Kineton (East side) Post Office House)

GV II

House, part the former post office. C17 with 1911 addition. Coursed dressed lias limestone with ashlar dressings, some brick to return; gabled old tile roofs with brick end stacks and 2 stacks to rear of ridge. 3-unit plan plus former post office. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; 3- plus 2-window range. Centre slants inward to forward break at left end. Entrance to left of centre has doorcase with angle panels and cornice to 6-fielded-panel door. Ground floor has 2 recessed-chamfered windows with labels and inserted 3-light leaded casements replacing mullions; similar 3-light mullioned windows to first floor; left end has window to each floor with 3/6 sash in flush wood frame; attic has 3 gabled dormers with 2-light leaded casements; some windows have wrought-iron casement fasteners. Right end has quoins and cornices to both floors. Tudor-headed entrance to right has continuous moulding and panel above with partly effaced letters: KINETON/ POST OFFICE; paired 2-fielded-panel doors. 2 similar Tudor-headed windows with raking sills and fixed glazing to left; first floor has pair of 2-light recessed-chamfered mullioned windows with raking sills and continuous label mould. Brick return with half-hipped gable and single-storey wing with 2-light single-chamfered mullioned window with label mould; rebuilt return has small C20 window and half-hipped gable. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP3352850923