Overbury Post Office And Stores

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/123 Overbury Post Office and Stores GV II

House converted to Post Office and Stores; not in use at time of survey (November 1985). 1879 remodelling of older structure by Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin and extended in 1905 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and some decorated timber-framing with roughcast infill; stone tiled roof in diminishing courses with gable-end parapets and ridge stacks. Two storeys with chamfered plinth; first floor at front is timber-framed and jettied on a moulded bressummer. It has close-set studding and there is a gable at the western end with a collar and tie-beam truss and decorative concave lozenge detail. North front elevation is of roughly three bays. Ground floor has two multi-paned oriel windows on shaped brackets and linked by a semi-circular timber archway; to the east of these windows is a glazed circular opening and to the west of them is a smaller oriel with a moulded cornice and leaded casements and which is continued up to the jetty by framed panels of close-set studding. On the first floor is a 2-light and a 6-light window above the main pair of oriels and beneath the gable is another 2-light and a 5-light window with plank weatherings; all the first floor windows have leaded casements. Between the pair of large oriels is a half-glazed door and transom light with two glazing bars. The door is reached by two flights of stone steps with simple cast iron railings. The rear south elevation has two 3-light casements and a 4-light casement, the former with a moulded chevron frieze and the latter with a frieze of linked moulded circles above it. The rear west wing was added in 1905 by Newton. Rubble with plain tiled roof. Two storeys, three bays, windows are all 2-light leaded casements (with cambered heads on ground floor). Lean-to porch on chamfered posts to left and doorway with cambered head. The porch is continued above a similar doorway in the adjoining out building. The out building has three further doors (one with a left side light) and a 2-light window, all with cambered heads and four sky- lights in the roof. (Saint, A: Richard Norman Shaw, London, 1976; Newton, W G: The Life and Work of Ernest Newton, London, 1925; VCH, 3(ii), p 469).

Listing NGR: SO9578137298