Corner of Greengate Street and Mill Street, Stafford

Description:On the left is a part view of Chetwynd House, Greengate Street, on the corner of Mill Street.

Chetwynd House was built around 1712-1715 by William Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (1683?-1770), Member of Parliament for Stafford 1715-1722 and 1734-1770. The house was sold in the 1780s to William Horton, a shoe manufacturer. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (playwright, and M.P. for Stafford, 1780 - 1807) was a friend of Horton's and often stayed here.

In 1914 Chetwynd House became Stafford's General Post Office until it closed in 2007 and then reopened in October 2007 on the first floor of W.H. Smith’s on Greengate Street, near to the Market Square. During 2025, W.H. Smith's UK high street stores were sold and became known as TG Jones, while the original W.H. Smith brand remains in airports, stations and hospitals. The Post Office continues (2026) on the first floor of the shop.

Following closure of the Post Office at Chetwynd House it stood empty until around 2010 when it was reported in the Staffordshire Newsletter that the building had been purchased and would undergo a £3 million conversion to become a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, and wedding venue. The Post House bar and restaurant opened in 2011. The interior still maintains some of its original features.

On the opposite of Mill Street is Dobson's tobacconists, next door there is a shoe shop selling Clark's shoes.