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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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)