Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81804
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/2003
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
The Old Post
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Lower Machen
Easting
322727
Northing
187955
Street Side
Location
On S side of village main road, some 150m SW of the church.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Village house, later C18 possibly on earlier core. House and outbuilding under single roof.
Exterior
House, white-painted rubble stone with concrete tile roof, rendered painted left end stack and ridge stack towards right end. Two storeys, three-window house range set to left of outbuilding under same roof to right. House has casement-pair windows with small panes, and stone sills, lower ones with cambered heads. C20 half-glazed centre door with C20 timber hood. Bay spacing is uneven, one to left, two to right, ground floor left window is larger than right one and has brick head, right one has stone voussoirs. Lean-to on left end wall of painted brick with double boarded garage doors, the lean-to roof continued back as outshut to a rear wing with S end stack. Outshut E side has door and long window to left.
Front walling is continuous to outbuilding to right which has one ledged door at extreme right, with timber lintel. C20 windows in end gable and rubble stone lean-to addition.
Interior
Interior not inspected. As investigated in 1977 there were beams to the left part and rough joists to the right and collar trusses to the roof with wide thin blades.
Reason for designation
Included as a long vernacular range in village centre opposite entry to Machen House, with surviving features of late C18 to early C19.
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