[Former] Post Office - Hambleton, Rutland - UK Post Offices on Waymarking.com

"In 1898 Mr Marshall had provided the village with an impressive Post Office, complete with ‘art nouveau’ clock, similar in style to the clock and sundial he had installed at Hambleton Hall. For nearly 70 years the clock was wound weekly by George Bushell, whose wife received the British Empire Medal for fifty years’ service as Postmistress, beginning in 1932 (Ovens & Sleath 2002, 200)."

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"Post office and row of 3 cottages, early C20, in an arts and crafts style. Loosely symmetrical, with central range and flanking gables, of coursed squared rubble with some. half timbering, and stone tiled roof. 1½ storeys. The left hand gable has stone mullioned bay to ground floor and oriel window in jettied half timbered gable above, in which are a clock and copper post and telegraph sign. The left hand gable is similar but contains a 2 storey stone mullioned bay window. Centre range contains 2 3-centred arched doorways, various stone mullioned windows, and a single timber framed gable dormer above. All windows have decorative small panes. Various gable and axial stacks. To extreme right beyond the gable a further projecting W. facing bay, with full height canted bay window in jettied gable, and overhanging eaves.

Post office door in west wall of front gable, a 3-centred arched doorway beneath the expressed chimney, and carrying a copper engraved shield."

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