The Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Cottage.
The Post House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-rubble-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post House is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing southeast and features an axial stack at the left end. There is a 19th-century one-bay extension to the left and a single-storey extension to the right. The cottage is two storeys high.
On the southeast elevation, there are three 20th-century casements and one small 19th-century casement on the ground floor, along with two 20th-century casements on the first floor. There are also two half-glazed doors. The southwest gable end, which faces the road, has one 19th-century horizontal sash window with sixteen lights on the first floor and no window on the ground floor.
Inside, the right ground floor room features a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section. The left ground floor room has a chamfered transverse beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section, both also with lamb's tongue stops. There is a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right, which has been much altered in the 20th century. The building shows primary straight bracing.
The Post House was formerly the Post Office.
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