Description

SS 20 NE LAUNCELLS RED POST

6/43 Red Post Inn
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- II

House and cottage, formerly public house. C18. Colourwashed, rendered,
probably cob on stone plinth. Thatched roof half hipped at gable ends, rendered
ridge stack. Evidence that left end, now used as separate cottage, is addition or
rebuilding - break in roof line and change in plane of front. Right end of house
probably originally 2 rooms and through passage, stack to right end dismantled C20.
Rear outshut, that to rear left slightly higher. 2-storey front with off-centre
enclosed gabled porch with slate roof, C20 door. Further entrance into ground
floor left (now cottage). 3 ground floor timber 2-light casements, 3 panes per
light. 5 first floor similar casements with slate sills, that above the porch
slightly smaller. Large fireplace to ridge stack. Roof timbers to right end
halved and pegged. Slate roofs of outshuts painted with bitumen. Daphne du
Maurier said to have stayed here.

Listing NGR: SS2639405207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434575

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)