Description

SO 8202-8302 WOODCHESTER HIGH STREET
(east side), South Woodchester

16/227 Post Office and General Store
(previously listed as House
(occupied by Coles) and Post Office
28.6.60

GV II

Shop and house at end of row. Early C18; early C19 remodelling
and enlargement. Coursed rubble limestone; artificial stone
rebuilt chimney; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic and
cellar. Front: 4-window fenestration, all segmental arched with
linking ashlar band to ground floor, mixed doors and casements;
three 12-pane upper floor sashes and casement in reduced opening
above shop doorway. Ridge-mounted chimney at north end. Hipped
south west corner of roof. South end: return wing with leaded
casement to attic dormer; scattered casements below. Rear: 2
gables, left being end of return wing; right is gable end of
earlier building with single-window fenestration, 2-light to
cellar, 3-light to ground and upper floors, 2-light to attic, all
with hoodmoulds.

Listing NGR: SO8394102043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26383001

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey