Survey Data
Reg No
14814002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
245266, 220721
Date Recorded
17/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached pair of three-bay single-storey with dormer attic houses, built c.1870, with extension to rear. Now in single use as a post office. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge cresting, rendered chimneystacks and replacement timber bargeboards. Rendered walls with modern brick cladding to base of ground floor. Dormer windows to attic with bargeboards and replacement timber windows. Replacement timber windows to ground floor with stone sills. Replacement timber door with sidelight. Modern shopfront with stone and brick stallriser and glass display windows flanking timber panelled double doors with overlight. Stone outbuildings to rear with pitched slate roofs.
Appraisal
This post office building, with bargeboards over upper windows and crested ridge tiles to the roof is attractive in the Geashill streetscape. Its scale and character fits well and compliments the village's other structures.