The Post Office

SU 12 NE ODSTOCK BODENHAM VILLAGE (north side)

5/125 The Post Office

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Cottage and attached shop. Circa 1840. Flemish bond brick with vitrified headers, decorated tiled roof with brick stacks. L-plan. 2-storey, 3-window front. Door to right in gabled porch with hood mould in gauged brick, to left is C19 shop window, and 2-light casement and planked door under one hood mould, in projecting wing to left, to right of door is 2-light cast-iron casement. All windows have gauged flat arches. First floor has 3-brick plat band and three 2-light cast-iron casements with hood moulds. Three steeply-pitched gables to front have brick cornices. Left return has door in gabled porch with hood mould and two 2-light cast-iron casements. First floor has 3-brick plat band and two 2-light cast- iron casements. Roof with two gables with brick cornices. Right return has two single wooden casements to ground floor, plat band to first floor and one C20 metal casement. Integral outshut to rear has C20 dormer to roof. Well-designed estate building of the Longford Castle Estate.

Listing NGR: SU1662526171