Description

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW ARDENS GRAFTON
1931-1/3/99 The Old Post Office
02/08/72
(Formerly Listed as:
ARDENS GRAFTON
Post Office)

GV II

Post office, now house. Mid to late C18 with some C20
restoration. Coursed blue lias rubble with brick facade, on
stone plinth, and brick verges; steeply pitched renewed tile
roof with brick end stacks and slate roof to side wing.
Georgian style. Central staircase plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plat band
over ground floor and top moulded brick cornice. Entrance has
rubbed brick flat arch over eared architrave and flat canopy,
6-panel door with 2 glazed panels. Windows have rubbed brick
flat arches over renewed wood mullioned and transomed windows,
of 3 lights to ground floor, 2 lights to first floor.
Right return has 2 small leaded lights above small
single-storey wing with stone plinth, rebuilt brick walls and
slate roof.
Rear has single-storey stone wing projecting to left return
and with raking buttress, and shallow 2-storey wing.
INTERIOR, not inspected, noted as having large fireplace with
bressumer to left end.

Listing NGR: SP1153754317

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662797

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair