Reg No
21310803
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Lauragh Post Office
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Post office
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
77793, 58453
Date Recorded
11/11/2005
Date Updated
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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, comprising three-bay single-storey range with dormer attic to left having single-storey box bay window to centre and two-bay two-storey gable-fronted block to right. In use as post office in 1897. Extended to rear to south-east in late twentieth century with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to accommodate commercial use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, cemented gable parapets, projecting eaves and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Painted stone sills to timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows at first floor, and to paired or tripled six-over-six pane sliding sash windows to public house with false leaded glazings. Replacement timber boarded door with overlight, surrounded by canvas canopy on steel supports. Model of pub and disused fuel pump to front.