Description

TOWCESTER WATLING STREET EAST
SP6948
13/160 No.90 (The Post Office)
29/07/70 (Formerly listed as No.90)

GV II

Post office, formerly house. Dated 1799, altered C19 and C20. Red brick in
Flemish bond with flared headers, slate roof, brick ridge and end stacks.
Central staircase plan. 3-storey, 5-window range. Central 6-panel door with
fanlight, panelled reveals and timber surround with thin panelled pilasters and
brackets supporting deep moulded cornice. Windows have moulded rendered
surrounds. C20 windows to ground floor, 12-pane sashes to first floor and 9-pane
sashes to attic floor and stone sills with console brackets. Circular window
between ground floor left windows. Central bay breaks forward and has pediment
framing datestone in horizontal oval panel. Rendered plinth, storey bands,
moulded stone eaves cornice and string to base of pediment. Rendered chamfered
quoins to ends and central bay and stone-coped gables.

Listing NGR: SP6934448697

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26292740

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)