The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- muted-chancel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
FRINGF0RD MAIN STREET SP6028 (East side) 20/21 The Old Post Office
- II House. Mid C18 with C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble. Steeply pitched thatched roof. Four brick ridge and end stacks. 3-unit plan. Single storey plus attic. 4-window attic range. 2 entrances, blacked on left with wood lintel. Approximately central entrance has 6-panelled door, wood frame and wood lintel. C20 porch. Ground floor has a single light C20 window with wood lintel and two 3-light wood casements in wood frames with wood lintels. Attic has three 2-light similar windows and a C20 single-light window. Tie-bar on left, fire plaque on right, Flora Thompson, who wrote Lark Rise to Candleford, once worked here when the building was the village post-office. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pl26)
Listing NGR: SP6051728883
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