The Post Office

ST STEPHEN IN ST STEPHEN'S COOMBE SW 95 SW BRANNEL 3/141 The Post Office - GV II

House; altered to accommodate a Post Office. Post Office. Mid - late C19 with few later alterations. Granite rubble with brick dressings. Scantle slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Double depth plan, with central entrance and principal room to front left and right, of equal size; each room heated from a gable end stack. Rear central stair hall with shallow rear service rooms. There is a small single storey addition of later C19 at the front right side. Probably circa early C20, the front and rear rooms to left were altered as a shop, with entrance at the left side. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front; all windows are mid C19 sashes with wide margin glazing and cambered brick arches. Central C19 4-panelled door with cambered brick arch. Attached to front right is a small single storey addition with monopitch roof, C19 12-pane sash with cambered brick arch at the inner side and C20 door with overlight to front. At the left side at ground floor there is a continuous timber lintel over a central C20 glazed door, early C20 4-pane shop window to right and left with toplights. At first floor there are two C19 12-pane sashes with cambered brick arches. At the rear there is a central C20 glazed door with 2-light 3-pane C19 casement with cambered brick arch to left. First floor has central round-arched C19 12-pane sash with splayed glazing bars lighting the stair, 2-light 8-pane C19 casement to left with cambered brick arch. Small single storey addition to left, in brick of later C19. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW9498051326