Nos 22 And 23 With Forecourt And Railings

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY SS 3124

11/33 Nos 22 and 23 with forecourt and railings

GV II

Pair of houses, ground floor of part of each amalgamated and used as a post office. C19, raised plaster on each:- "F.C.H. 1904", marking their rebuilding by Christine Hamlyn. Rendered and whitewashed, gable-ended slate, C19 roofs with clay ridges; 2- large off-ridge brick stacks at the rear. Plan: 2 attached houses in similar style, stepped down the steeply falling village street. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic, 3:3 windows on the first floor, attics with gabled half-dormers with bracketted eaves. Right house with 2 light 12-pane 1904 casements, to left 2-light 1904 mullioned and transomed casements with square-paned leaded lights. Large projecting mid C20 shop front to the left, 3-lights, low- pitched hipped slate roof, door to left, 6-panelled door. To left of shop front, the door opening to No. 22, half-glazed door. Door opening to No 23 to right, half- glazed door, rubble porch with cambered corners, plain outer opening, dentil cornice, roof forming a balcony with curved scrolly wrought-iron balustrade. Window to left of front with bottom lights blocked and a Post Office stamp dispenser inserted, adjacent to its right a post box. Forecourt to No 23 with rubble plinth, slate flagstone capping, part of the light renewed in concrete, plain wrought iron railings. Plank doorway to a basement to the right. Interior: of shop and post office devoid of details of interest. Remainder of the building not seen.

Listing NGR: SS3176024831