The Old Post Office

TL 70 NE 10/952

DANBURY The following buildings shall be added:

Main Road (North side) No 100 (The Old Post Office)

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House. Late C16/early C17, with late C19 alterations and extensions. Render over timber frame; gabled old tile roof, with pantiles to rear outshut; late C19 brickleft end and rear lateral stacks. 2 unit plan, with late C19 brick outshut and extension to rear; late C19 wing added to front. One storey and attic; 2 window range. Late C19 four-panelled (2 glazed) door to centre, with trellised porch. Late C19 three-light casements; gabled half-dormers with bargeboards; 2 light casement over door. Late C19 one-storey right-angled brick extension to right; late C19 two-storey extension and outshut to rear. Interior: C19 plank doors; cased beam to right; chamfered beam with stepped run-out stops. Exposed timber framing with jowled storey posts braced to chamfered tie beam; no access to roof space. The right-hand room of this house functioned as the village post office between 1875 and 1931.

Listing NGR: TL7769705401