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Latitude: 53.2649 / 53°15'53"N
Longitude: -4.0963 / 4°5'46"W
OS Eastings: 260281
OS Northings: 376266
OS Grid: SH602762
Mapcode National: GBR JN82.6CH
Mapcode Global: WH542.16NC
Plus Code: 9C5Q7W73+XF
Entry Name: The Old Post
Listing Date: 23 September 1950
Last Amended: 13 July 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 5688
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300005688
Location: Fronting the street in a block of buildings on the W side of the junction with Stanley Street.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Town: Beaumaris
Community: Beaumaris (Biwmares)
Community: Beaumaris
Built-Up Area: Beaumaris
Traditional County: Anglesey
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An C18 house, used as a posting house until c1833, after which the post was no longer carried to Holyhead via Wexham Street. The house is shown on the 1829 town plan with a rear wing and had probably only recently been altered to its present Georgian front. The rear wing was later extended, as shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
A 1½-storey house of whitened pebble dashed walls, steep slate roof, small roughcast stack to the L and larger roughcast stack to the R where the ridge line rises. Openings are offset to the L of centre. The central entrance has a replacement fielded-panel door in a doorcase with pediment, flanked by 12-pane hornless sash windows. A central attic gable has a small sash in a bullseye window, flanked by 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows in raked dormers. In the R gable end, on the L side, is a 16-pane hornless sash window in the lower storey and an attic casement window.
The rear is rendered. It has a central small-pane Gothic stair window, an inserted glazed door to the R, below a gabled dormer with replacement casement window. On the L side is a 2½-storey rear wing, mostly with enlarged or replacement windows, which has a 1-storey flat-roofed projection against the gable end.
The plan of the house belongs to the early C19 alterations. A central hall a stair with quarter turn, which has plain balusters and turned newel. The rooms to the R and L both retain original stop-chamfered cross beams. The reveal of the window in the R-hand room has a panelled cupboard door, probably giving access to a former posting box.
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved C18 house of simple Georgian character, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Wexham Street.
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