Post Office

WOODSTOCK PARK STREET SP4416NW (North side) 9/205 Nos.2 and 4 (Post Office) and 31/07/70 6 and 8 (Formerly listed as No.2 (Post Office)) GV II House, now dwelling, part of Oxfordshire County Museum and post office. Late C16/early C17. Coursed limestone rubble; double-gabled M-shaped stone slate roof; brick right end and ridge stacks, and left end stack of stone finished in brick. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. 3-window range to right: wrought-iron brackets support flat hood above C20 door; mid C19 shop fronts have 4-light windows with glazing bars and sunk spandrels to arched heads; flat stone arches over horned and unhorned 8-pane sashes. To left, is similar bracketed hood and timber lintel over C18 six-panelled door; C17 two-storey square bay window has 8-pane sashes, with thick glazing bars on ground floor. Left bay has mid C19 canted bay windows with six-pane sashes framed by pilasters and moulded cornice. Three gabled roof dormers with 2-light latticed and leaded windows. Three C17 two-storey rear wings: wing to right has finely-carved timber lintels over 2-light leaded casement and 3-light wood-mullioned window, and later C17 bay to rear with stop-chamfered timber lintel over 4-light leaded casement. C20 extension to rear left. Interior; stop-chamfered beams. No.8 to left has stop-chamfered and cased beams and some early C17 panelling with fluted frieze in room to right; late C18 panelled door with brass Dutch-drop handle; early C19 moulded plaster cornice. Noted as having C17 staircases with turned balusters to the rear of Nos.2-6. Called "newly built" in 1608. (Information from VCH)

Listing NGR: SP4441516762