Description

SP 72 NW MIDDLE CLAYDON MAIN STREET

4/86 Old Post Office

II

Public room, former library, and house. Dated 1827 on plaque to
right gable, altered. Pebble dash over brick, half-timbered porch,
tiled roofs, 2 brick stacks each with 3 square shafts set diagonally.
Picturesque Gothick. 2 storeys. N. front has 5 bays, outer bays
set back, 2-storey projecting gabled porch to centre with lean-to
to right. Inner bays gabled to front. Irregular windows with cast
iron lattice casements to ground floor and leaded casements to first
floor. 2 doors in 4-centred arched frames with similarly arched
and glazed lights to upper half. Verandah to left side andrear.
Built at expense of Mr. Abel Smith, son-in-law of Sir Harry Calvert
of Claydon House.

Listing NGR: SP7212425761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576824

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