The Old Post Office

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW ARDENS GRAFTON 1931-1/3/99 The Old Post Office 02/08/72 (Formerly Listed as: ARDENS GRAFTON Post Office)

GV II

Post office, now house. Mid to late C18 with some C20 restoration. Coursed blue lias rubble with brick facade, on stone plinth, and brick verges; steeply pitched renewed tile roof with brick end stacks and slate roof to side wing. Georgian style. Central staircase plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plat band over ground floor and top moulded brick cornice. Entrance has rubbed brick flat arch over eared architrave and flat canopy, 6-panel door with 2 glazed panels. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches over renewed wood mullioned and transomed windows, of 3 lights to ground floor, 2 lights to first floor. Right return has 2 small leaded lights above small single-storey wing with stone plinth, rebuilt brick walls and slate roof. Rear has single-storey stone wing projecting to left return and with raking buttress, and shallow 2-storey wing. INTERIOR, not inspected, noted as having large fireplace with bressumer to left end.

Listing NGR: SP1153754317