Post Office And Adjoining House

OTTERTON FORE STREET (south side) SY 0885 Otterton 7/163 Post Office and adjoining house GV II Post Office and adjoining house. House is C17, refurbished and rearranged in late C19; Post Office is mid C20. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble and brick stacks with late C19 brick chimney shafts; thatch roof. Post Office is plastered brick with slate roof. The house faces south-east, its left end onto Fore Street. It has a double depth plan with the 2 main rooms to the front, the left one with an end stack and the right one with a slightly projecting front lateral stack. Entrance hall and staircase at right end. Service rooms to rear, the right one with a lateral stack. The Post Office shop projects at right angles to rear of the left end facing onto the street. It is single storey. The house is 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of C19 casements with glazing bars. Late C19 part-glazed 4-panel door at right end with C20 gabled hood. The stack to left of it has slate weathered offsets. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Left end includes 2 ground floor and 1 first floor casement with glazing bars. Shop has central doorway flanked by plate glass windows. Interior: The only C17 feature that can be observed is the central roof truss. The lower part is plastered over but its shape indicates jointed cruck construction. Other C17 features may be plastered over elsewhere but only C19 joinery detail shows. The Post Office house is one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.

Listing NGR: SY0835185304