Grimwoods (Former Post Office)

CRESSING THE STREET TL 72 SE (west side)

1/67 Grinwoods (former Post Office)

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as P.O. House. Early C18, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing S (gable end to street) with axial stack to right of centre, forming a lobby-entrance, and original full-length lean-to to rear, forming a catslide roof. One storey with attics. 3-window range of mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights. Near-central CL9 door. The right return (facing the street) has a CL9 splayed shop window, a flush 4-panel door with moulded surround and simple flat canopy, and one C19 casement in the lean-to. The rear elevation has one C19 horizontal sash of 9 + 9 lights, 2 CL9 casements and a plain boarded door. Deeply chamfered axial beam in right bay. Wide wood-burning hearth facing to right, disused; wide wood-burning hearth facing to left, reduced for C20 grate. Primary straight bracing, including re-used timber. Original stair in rear lean-to. C19 corner cupboard in rear right corner of left ground-floor room, door removed. All original internal battened doors present. This house was formerly weatherboarded; it is prototypical of the New England 'saltbox houses'.

Listing NGR: TL7928620706