Post Office And Stores

PALGRAVE THE GREEN (EAST SIDE) TM 1178 5/65 Post Office and Stores - -- II

House with shop. Mid to late C16, altered and extended in C18 and C19. Timber frame, plastered. Hipped pantiled roof. A 3 cell lobby entry plan with additions at service end. 2 storeys. 5 window front. Ground floor: entrance to right of centre with C18 six fielded panelled door, pedimented architrave, to left a large C19 sash, to right 2 glazing bar sashes, flush frames with ornamental blind boxes. To far left is projecting brick shop, C19 with a large window and a door with a fanlight. First floor 6-pane sashes, C18 eaves cornice. Cross axial ridge stack rebuilt in white brick. Left return truncated external stack. C18 dairy/bakehouse wing to rear left, entrance in return, gable end internal stack. C19 lean-to added to rear. Interior: ground floor, hall has a cavetto mullioned 3-light opening; jowled post to double roll moulded cross axial binding beam with similar joists, parlour has a deeply chamfered axial binding beam, some brick nogging repair to end wall. First floor: above hall to rear a diamond mullioned 5-light opening, arched brace from jowled post to cambered tie beam. Butt purlin roof with angled struts to collars and halved principal rafters.

Listing NGR: TM1159878554