Survey Data
Reg No
32315003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Aclare Post Office
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
141149, 310049
Date Recorded
29/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1850. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course, cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, limestone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows, some modified. Square-headed door openings, plain-glazed overlights, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Street fronted, rubble stone wall projects forward from south-west corner with gateway containing corrugated-iron gates to west leading to rear yard, slightly higher two-storey building to east.
Appraisal
This fine little house at one time functioned as the village post office and evidence can still be seen in one window where the post box was installed. The survival of the early fenestration, together with the eccentric elevational arrangement, adds to its architectural character and charm.