Post Office

SO 7225-7325 NEWENT CHURCH STREET (south side)

13/95 Nos 29 and 31 (Post Office) (formerly listed as Post Office) 2.10.54

GV II

Post office and house; early C18, early C19, altered C20; Flemish bond brickwork, pale to wall, red to quoins and openings, tiled roof: brick to extension (No 29) red. Four windows wide, 'L' plan, 2 storeys and attic. Original building 3 windows wide, symmetrical. Front door up 2 stone steps, 6 fielded panels, 3-pane rectangular fanlight, moulded surround, flat projecting hood with fluted frieze and small dentils over, below moulded cornice. To left sash window, flat, rubbed-brick arch with projecting, capped brick keystone. Below segmental head to cellar opening at ground level. To right mid to late C20 four-light mullion and transom window: lintel of original sash window survives above. First floor 3 sash windows, as ground floor, but with stone keystones: centre window segmental head and fluted keystone. Modillion eaves cornice, hipped roof with chimney each end: 3 hipped dormers, slate cheeks, 2-light casement windows. One bay extension on right: 6- panel door up 1 stone step, top panels-glazed, centre fielded, bottom flush, in moulded surround, flat, projecting hood. To right 4-pane wide sash windows, with slightly cambered rubbed-brick arch. Similar window first floor; separate hipped roof, chimney on right return.

Listing NGR: SO7235925888