Description

PERRANZABULOE CALLESTICK
SW 75 SE
5/54 The Old Post Office
-
GV II

House, for some time used as the village post office. Circa 1770 (James Perfect
George 1777 inscribed on one of the window panes). Killas rubble to ground floor,rendered cob above. Steep asbestos slate roof (formerly thatched with brick chimneys over the gable ends. Cast-iron ogee-section gutters.
Plan: 2-room-plan house with entrance lobby between the rooms and a stair outshut behind the right-hand room. Left-hand room (parlour) originally had a shallow pantry partitioned off at the rear. Later single-storey extension (formerly post office) at right angles in front of the right-hand side. C20 extensions at far right.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Original house has nearly symmetrical 3-window front with
doorway slightly right of middle. C19 4-panel door. Original C18 12-pane 2-light casements with centre-hung opening lights. Old glass including some bulls-eye panes. One C20 replaced light to window over doorway.
Interior: Largely unaltered interior: Large fireplace with cloam oven in right-hand room; moulded ceiling beams and original roof structure with close-spaced hardwood pegged trusses.

Listing NGR: SW7751350313

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599095

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]