Post Office & Brampton House © DCC 2002


Post Office & Brampton House © DCC 2002


Brampton House © DCC 2005

House, now post office. Mid C18 with mid C19 alterations and rear additions. Painted render with painted plinth and ashlar dressings. Main roof graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings and rendered chimneys; roof of No.2 has stone slates. Double-span main house at left has 3 storeys; 4-window range; No.2 at right of 2 storeys; one-window range. Main house has renewed 6-panel door in painted stone architrave in second bay; similar architraves and projecting stone sills to renewed 4-pane sashes on upper floors, those on second floor smaller, and renewed window to left of door with copper-sheet front to posting box inserted below plain light. Flanking mid C19 canted bay windows have 4-pane sashes, the left with stamp machine inserted. No.2 to right has renewed 6-panel door and plain overlight at left, renewed 4-pane sashes with painted flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills at right. Main roof double-span with stone gable copings, moulded stone kneelers, and corniced end chimneys to each range; roof of No.2 has tall right end rendered chimney. Left return to Flatt Road has renewed door and plain sashes in rear range, and left addition of one storey, one window, with stone-mullioned canted bay window under hipped roof. (1)

The post office once contained a First World War memorial plaque. This was relocated to the Callers Office at Harmire Enterprise Park (NZ 05139 17673) in 1998 (2-3).