Listed Building: POST OFFICE (467817)

WEYMOUTH SY7083 PRESTON ROAD, Preston 873-1/9/477 (South side) 14/06/74 No.224 Post Office (Formerly Listed as: PRESTON ROAD, Preston No.224) GV II Detached house, set gable to the road. Dated 1747. Rubble, thatch roof. 2-room central-entry plan. The main front, facing W is 2 storeys, 2 windows; 2- and 3-light small-pane wood casements with central part-glazed door under a small gable hood. Above the door a panel inscribed I/RM/1747/May 29. The gable to the road is plain, with a door to the right, and there are small brick gable stacks. The rear has a 2-light casement at each level, far left. Attached to the rear, parallel with the road, is a single-storey gabled range, a former workshop, with corrugated roof and rubble walls with a small single and a larger 6-pane fixed light , to the left of a wide pair of doors under a deep boarded lintel. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a compact group of early houses in this part of the village. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 362). Listing NGR: SY7043483062

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