Post Office And Adjoining Barn

DENT

SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town 162-1/25/190 (South side) 14/06/84 Post Office and adjoining barn

GV II

Pair of cottages, now combined as post office and shop. Probably C18; altered. Coursed rubble with quoins, painted white; stone slate roof. Double-depth 2-unit plan, with a rear wing to the left half and the barn continued from the end of that. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys and 3 windows; with a plinth. The ground floor has a pair of square-headed doorways in the centre, both with board doors but the left now fixed, a square 4-pane sash to the left, a rectangular 2-light shop window to the right and a letterbox next to that. The 1st floor has 3 square sashes (12, 4 and 12 panes respectively). Gable chimney to left with stone slate band, ridge chimney to right coupled with that of The Wool Shop. The left gable wall has a 12-pane sash near the rear corner of the ground floor, a small 1-light window above this, a large rectangular window near the front corner of the 1st floor (now with double glazing imitating a 16-pane sash) and a small square attic window immediately above this; the rear wing has a doorway at the junction, a little window left of this and a 12-pane sash above. The barn, of unpainted roughly-coursed rubble with through-stones, probably 2 bays, continued at the same height, has a square-headed doorway at the junction, with a stone lintel, a loading door above this, and a wagon doorway at the left end with a wooden lintel. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with The Wool Shop adjoining to the right (qv), and with Siege Ghyll to the south-east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7052086949