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The Old Post Office — Cork Road

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The Old Post Office — Cork Road
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Pair of two-bay two-storey houses over basement, built c.1820. Previously in use as a post office, now a single property in private domestic use. Pitched slate roof with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods to corbelled eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered wall to front elevation, roughcast render to side. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two sliding sash windows to ground and first floor and eight-over-eight (partially blocked) and six-over-six sliding sash windows to western house. Square-headed door opening to eastern house with replacement timber door. Square-headed door opening to basement with tongue-and-grooved door. Shopfront to western house comprises square-headed window opening with fixed light six-pane window set in timber architrave with adjacent timber panelled door having overlight (now blocked) and limestone step). Fronts directly onto street.

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