Building record 2686/0/7 - Yarwell Post Office and attached house

An early 18th century house with an attached mid 19th century post office/shop situated on the northern side of Main Street. Both buildings are constructed of squared coursed limestone with the post office extension having ashlar dressings and quions. The house is single story with an attic range lit by a single hipped roof dormer on the front of a steeply pitched Collyweston slate roof. The road front has a central door flanked by two casement windows under wooden lintels. The shop/post office is attached to the left of the house with a shared chimney stack at the division. It is two storys high with a central sash window under a cambered brick arch to the first floor, above a glazed shop front with a post box on the right.

House. Early C18. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan. Single storey with attic. 2-window range of C19 casements under wood lintels. Central C19 four-panel door; is also under wood lintel. Hipped, roof dormer, to left, has horizontal sliding sash window. Brick stack, now rendered, at end. Single-storey extension to rear. Mid C19, single-unit, 2-storey shop is attached to left. Interior not inspected. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in Nor h Northamptonshire: p174)

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{5} [Former list description] An early 18th century house with an attached mid 19th century post office/shop. Both buildings are constructed of squared coursed limestone with the post office extension having ashlar dressings and quions. The house is single story with an attic range lit by a single hipped roof dormer on the front of a steeply pitched Collyweston slate roof. The road front has a central door flanked by two casement windows under wooden lintels. The shop/post office is attached to the left of the house with a shared chimney stack at the division. It is two storys high with a central sash window under a cambered brick arch to the first floor, above a glazed shop front with a post box on the right. The buildings are Listed at Grade II.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 14/229 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 174/9 (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Yarwell (Photographs). SNN114368.

<5> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, District of Listing: East Northamptonshire. 12-Oct-1988. (Report). SNN112993.

<6> Historic England, POST OFFICE, YARWELL, BF084311 (Archive). SNN115202.

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Aug 25 2023 10:02AM