The Old Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-jamb-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post House is a 17th-century house with 20th-century extensions projecting to the left. The house was originally timber framed and has been refronted in brick to the right, with a brown brick extension to the left. It has plain tiled roofs, half-hipped to the right and taller to the left. The house is one storey and attic to the right, and two storeys to the left. A decorated ridge stack with string courses is located to the left of centre on the right-hand range, and a plain ridge stack is located to the left. A plat band runs over the ground floor, featuring dentilled eaves on the right. The front of the house is irregular, with two diamond-pane leaded casement windows under an eaves gable to the right and two ground floor windows with cambered heads. A central, narrow, square bay window with a hipped roof is situated on the ground floor.
The left-hand wing projects, featuring a single 4-light eaves casement window and a 2-light window on the ground floor. A planked door is located in the re-entrant angle of the ranges. A hipped roof brick porch with a glazed outer door stands nearby. A single-storey imitation timber-framed extension is present to the left. The original timber frame is exposed to the sides and rear of the building.
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