Survey Data
Reg No
20915306
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Post office
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
96208, 21533
Date Recorded
15/05/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey former post office, built 1863, with gabled central bays and porch addition. Now in use as private house. Recent extensions to rear (north). Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped artificial slate roof to porch. Painted rendered walls with plinth and having rendered quoins to porch. Square-headed openings with single and bipartite six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Replacement windows to rear. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door having chamfered panels, and overlight.
Appraisal
This former post office retains its original form and design, and it is an interesting addition to the landscape. It displays attention to detail as seen in the gable-front and quoins which help to enliven the structure's façade. The post office was constructed in association with a boat, "The Lady Peel", which was a six-oared vessel donated by Sir Robert Peel in 1863, as a mail boat between Cape Clear and Baltimore, 'who expressed...his anxiety to benefit the island in every way possible'.