Post Office

The building is a Post Office located at Nos 2 and 4 Bedford Street in Woburn. It is an early 18th-century reworking of an earlier structure, likely from the 17th century. The front elevation features brickwork made of vitrified bricks laid in header bond, with red brick dressings, and it is thought to contain a timber-framed core. The roof is a steeply pitched two-span design covered with 20th-century tiles.

The building has two storeys and attics. The ground floor of No. 2 has been reworked in the late 19th century and converted into a shop. The right-hand side has a double fronted shop front, reworked in the 20th century, with a part-glazed door set in a central splayed recess. On the left, there are two plain sash windows in ashlar surrounds, each featuring a different ornamental apron, flanking an Edward VII enamel post box set into the wall. The surrounding brickwork is from the 19th century.

No. 4 retains a ground floor sash window with glazing bars, set in a moulded wood case that is almost flush with the wall, beneath a gauged brick flat arch. To the right of this window is a doorway accessed by a flight of steps, featuring a four-panel door topped by a rectangular fanlight, all in a simple moulded architrave. A moulded flat hood is supported by ornamental cut brackets. Between Nos 2 and 4 is a square-headed carriage arch with a plain timber surround.

On the first floor, there are eight sash windows arranged in a 2:1:5 pattern, with the central window of the five being blind. All the other windows have glazing bars and moulded cases that are almost flush with the wall, topped with gauged brick flat heads, three of which have scallop decorations cut into them. The two right-hand sashes retain 19th-century wood valances. The attic features four hipped dormers, each with two-light casements that include glazing bars. The building is finished with a heavy moulded brick eaves cornice and a variety of brick chimney stacks at the ridge and gable ends.