The Old Post House Including Front Railings

The Old Post House, built in 1877, served as a post office and postmaster's house, commissioned by the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. The building is constructed of brown snecked local stone with decorative cream and red brick detailing, including quoins of alternating cream and red brick. It has stone stacks with brick chimneyshafts and a slate roof. The original design incorporates an L-shaped plan. The main block, facing east, features a two-room plan with a central entrance hall. The room to the left is set back at a 45-degree angle with a rear lateral stack, while a one-room block projects to the rear of the left end and has a projecting gable-end stack. The building is two storeys high and has a regular, although not symmetrical, 1:2 window arrangement on the front elevation. The windows are set within pointed segmental arches of cream brick, with alternate cream and red brick quoins on the sides, and feature original timber mullion-and-transom windows with glazing bars. The first floor has gabled half dormers. A pointed segmental arch frames the front doorway, which now contains a 20th-century panelled door. A cream brick platband runs along the first floor level. The canted bay is gabled and displays a sandstone plaque at the top, carved with the Rolle arms and dated 1877. Decorative open bargeboards feature on the gable and half dormers. Both roof sections are gable-ended. The interior was not inspected. Original cast iron railings, with plain railings, bulbous standards, and fleur-de-lys finials, enclose a narrow strip of ground along the front, including an original gate in the same style. The house was part of a wider rebuilding scheme undertaken by the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle shortly after the rebuilding of Stevenstone Court, which is now ruined.