The Old Post Office

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

DENT

SD7087 THE LANING, Dent Town 162-1/24/203 (North side) 14/06/84 Old Post Office

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C17 or early C18; enlarged and altered. Roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan on east-west axis facing south. 2 storeys and 3 windows, almost symmetrical. The ground floor has a gabled porch in the centre (perhaps a recent addition), flanked by large square windows now furnished with 6-pane sashes; the 1st floor has a 4-pane sash in the centre and a 6-pane sash on either side. Front left corner overlapped by front outshut of adjoining property (which is not of special interest). Corbelled chimney at east gable; ridge chimney at junction to left. Rear has inserted back door to right, small stair-window in centre, and 2 other windows on each floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with the Old School (qv) diagonally opposite to the south-west.







Listing NGR: SD7041487069

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1212 IOE Records taken by Derek Le Mare; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Derek Le Mare. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project