Listed Building record MDO14692 - The Post House, Ryme Intrinseca

A house thought to have been built in 1772, as a stone set over the front door has the inscription ‘H G E 1772’. A cottage, of early nineteenth-century date, is attached at the east end. The house has walls of red brick and a slate roof with stone detail and brick chimney stacks. The attached cottage is also of brick with a slate roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 194 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (5) Range of three tenements, on N. side of the road, 100 yards N.W. of the church, is of three builds. At the W. end is a building with a central chimney. In the middle, the Post House, with walls built of brick in Flemish bond, has a panel containing the initials and date HGE 1772; there is a moulded cornice over the doorway and the windows have segmental heads; the angles of the house are rusticated and the gabled E. and W. ends are finished with flat stone copings. At the E. end is an early 18th-century building with walls of rubble and brick and windows with flush frames.’

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Jul 17 2015 10:44AM