Building record 2141/0/12 - No.20 High Street (The Old Post Office)

House constructed c. 1703.

{1} Dated 1703. Slightly altered. Dressed ironstone with plinth, bonded chamfered quoins. 2 storeys and attics, 1st floor band. Old tiled roof with gable end coping on kneelers. West gable has 2 windows to each floor, leaded casements in moulded stone surrounds with sill mouldings and small cornices; date stone uder similar cornice in centre of gable above attic window. Centre of north front has oval leaded window, with quadrant key block, to each floor. South front 5 windows wide has upper 2 light with sill mouldings, cornices and moulded stone mullions. Central doorway with stone architrave surround under cornice, 2 flanking modern stone mullioned 3 light casement windows replacing C19 6 light wood mullioned shop windows.

{3} Photo dated 1990, also undated photo, probably 1990s;

{4} Five bays, two storeys, quoins, doorway with straight entablature, but the windows still two-light mullioned.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 23/555 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H14 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN116960.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Northampton (Photographs). SNN114989.

<4> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 493 (Book). SNN111989.

Record last edited

May 18 2026 8:57AM