Post Office

WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD CHURCH STREET TM 16 NW

3/117 Post Office 29.7.55 GV II House and post office. Probably C16 core with C17 addition to right and C18- Cl9 wing to rear. Little altered since C19. Timber framed, old plasterwork, thatched roof. 3 cells. 1½ storeys. A complete set of C18 casement windows with old square-leaded glass. To left, an early C19 canted shop window with 30 small panes. Adjacent early C19 doorway: convex reeded architrave, dripboard on paired fluted brackets; 6-panel door in 2 leaves, the lower 2 panels flush, the upper 4 fielded. Early C19 doorway into house: reeded architrave and cornice; 6-panel door with flush, fielded and raised and fielded panels. Gabled timber trellis porch. 2 dormers. Internal stack and another at right gable end. 1½-storey range to rear, including C19 weatherboarded cart shed and stables, all under a glazed black pantiled roof. Interior. Most of timbers concealed. A chamfered ceiling beam in centre room is probably C16. To left of stack, 2 cambered collars with remains of large curved braces from the principal rafters. Right cell seems to be a C17 addition: some plain first floor studding, chamfered ceiling joists with small lamb's tongue stops.

Listing NGR: TM1268566869