Lichfield And Post Office

This is a house, now a combined house and shop, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with an early 18th-century rear outshut and a brick front added in the late 19th century. The brick facade is made of plum-coloured brick with bands of red brick and features buttresses. The roof is covered in old red tiles. It is a long, two-storey building with a cellar, and a substantial internal chimney. Originally, the building followed a lobby-entry plan, with a hall and service room to the west (number 17), and a parlour to the east (number 19). The south front has casement windows with lintels between projecting brick buttresses. A central gable displays the cypher "ECSS", representing Egbert Cecil Sebright Saunders who inherited the Sebright estate in 1890. A shop has been incorporated into the front, with tiled hoods sheltering the windows on either side of the entrance. A single-storey building linked to the east is not considered to be of special interest. The interior retains exposed timbers, including axial chamfered beams west of the main chimney with a large open fireplace. The parlour features a chamfered axial beam, chamfered joists, and an open fireplace. Further east, there are two chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops. The rear wall and cross-walls show the exposed frame. Additional features include jowled posts and straight braces to the tie-beam.