Description

6822 EAST MEON CHURCH STREET East side

12/21 The post cottage and shop
16.3.54 (post office)

GV II

House and shop. C18 south block (facing High Street to the south), with north
side extension of the early C19 (facing Church Street, to the west). Walls of
painted brickwork in Flemish bond, some cambered arches, later part stuccoed.
Tile roof, with tile-fronted gables to half-dormers, lower-pitched slate roof to
the north side. The south elevation is one and a half storeys two windows, C20
casements, and panelled door beneath a hood. The west elevation has two unequal
gables, both of stucco and projected above brick dentil bands, the north side
having pilasters which enclose a ground-floor shopfront, with a central doorway,
a decorative cornice, and windows of small panes. One casement in the north gable
and a ground-floor casement to the south side.

Listing NGR: SU6799722155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26386913

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