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Kegworth Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG11 0DB

Looking towards the railway bridge carrying the Midland Main Line between East Midlands Parkway and Loughborough.

A bridge carrying the Midland Mainline railway is also visible ahead.

The Post Office, Kingston on Soar. Grade II listed. Listing number 1260202. House, now cottage and post office. Mid C17 and mid C18 with later C19 alterations. Red brick, some timber frame. Mid C18 red brick front with plain tile roof. 2 C19 red brick gable stacks. Single storey plus attic, 4 bays. Single fixed light, to the right is a doorway with part glazed door and C19 plain tile hood supported on wooden brackets, further right is a small glazing bar fixed light, a doorway with plank door and similar C19 hood and on the far right a single glazing bar casement. Above are 2 C19 gabled dormers each with single glazing bar casement. To the rear of No.2 is a mid C17 originally timber framed range. Visible remains of timber frame include 2 rails, 2 braces, posts and some studs. Rear gable wall with remains of a post, tie beam and collar.

The Midland Mainline crosses the road on the bridge.

Grade II listed. Listing number 1242106. Row of 4 cottages. Mid C19 for Edward Strutt. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. 2 large red brick stacks to the ridge and to the rear, single similar external stack to centre front. Brick coped gables with kneelers. Set on a plinth. Single storey plus attic, 8 bays. The single bays third from the right and left are gabled, the outer single bays project and are gabled. The central stack is flanked by single 2 light glazing bar casements, further left and right are single similar 4 light casements and single porches with pyramidal roofs and brick side walls surmounted by fixed lights. Both porches closed with C20 glazing bar doors. In the outer projecting bays are single similar 4 light casements. Further right and left are single similar porches with lights to the front and entrances to the sides. Above are 4 similar tripartite casements. All casements with flush ashlar quoin surrounds and ashlar mullions.

Looking from the Green. Note the traditional telephone box still in situ, together with a full pillar box, rather than the small post mounted box that would normally be sufficient for a village of this size.

Towards Ratcliffe on Soar