Description

SU 02 NW COMPTON CHAMBERLAYNE COMPTON CHAMBERLAYNE VILLAGE (west side)

4/135 Post office and Orchard Cottage

GV II

Pair of cottages. Mid C17. Dressed limestone, timber-framed first floor with brick nogging, tiled roof with stone or rendered stacks. Through passage to rear of stack. Two-storey, 4-window. Post Office has half-glazed door with flat wooden hood on brackets and bow-fronted shop window to left, 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with hoodmould to right; Orchard Cottage has planked door and 3-light mullioned casement with hoodmould. First floor has three 3-light leaded casements and one single-light leaded casement. Left return has single-light casement to first floor. Rear has lean-to extensions, 2-light leaded casements to first floor. Right return has C20 casements to ground and first floors. Interior-of Orchard Cottage not accessible at time of survey (March 1986), Post Office has deeply chamfered beams with bar and stepped stops, planked doors, blocked open fireplace with stairs to one side.

Listing NGR: SU0288629631

External Links

• Wikidata Q26572554

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)