Survey Data
Reg No
40402019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Drumconnick Post Office
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Office
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1810
Coordinates
239702, 305302
Date Recorded
13/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1790, with corrugated-iron lean-to to west gable and return to rear. Formerly also in use as post office. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with bands below caps and clay pots, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Bipartite windows in moulded render surrounds to outer bays at both levels, having one-over-one sash windows to upper storey and timber casements to ground floor, all with painted sills. Central upper floor window having one-over-one sashes in moulded surround. Central entrance door with margin-paned half-glazed timber panelled door. Set slightly back from road.
Appraisal
A modestly detailed, late eighteenth or early nineteenth century house which largely retains its early character, distinguished by bipartite arrangement of windows. Retaining most of its historic fabric intact, this house makes an eyecatching roadside addtion. Sited at an historically important location, near the main entrance of the Farnham demesne, the exterior shows no evidence of its former function as a post office. It has nonetheless played a role in the social history of the locality.