Post Office

CHACEWATER FORE STREET (south side) Chacewater SW 74 SE 5/62 No 7 (Post Office) and No 8 30.5.67 GV II 2 adjoining shops with houses. Early C19. Rendered and painted studwork to front. Corrugated asbestos roof with brick chimneys left and right over party walls. Originally 1-room and double depth plans. Post Office, left is now 1-room with C20 wing to rear. 2 storeys. 3-window north street front. 16-pane horned sash, left, 12-pane horned sash over right side door of Post Office and original hornless 16-pane sash centrally over right shop window. Ground floor left has fine early C19 double- fronted shop with bowed 20-pane shop window either side of shop entrance with glazed and panelled door and overlight. The right-hand bowed window is slightly altered. House doorway to right and bowed shop windows are flanked by narrow pilasters and the whole has entablature with fascia bowed out over the windows and moulded cornice over. Right-hand shop of late date has 6-panel top-glazed door in original opening, left and shopfront of shallow projecting bay with C20 glazing and original simple fascia. Interior of Post Office much altered. The shop to No7 is one of the fine shopfronts for which Chacewater is notable.

Listing NGR: SW7504344405