Melpost House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.

Melpost House

WRENN ID
spare-hammer-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1984
Type
House
Address
Melpost House, Whepstead Road, Hawstead
OS grid reference
TL 853 577
Coordinates
52.18699, 0.70984
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Melpost House is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and has one and a half storeys with attics. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a hipped thatched roof that includes eyebrow casement dormers and an axial chimney made of red brick. The house has small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a gabled thatched entrance porch with a flush door from the 20th century. Inside, there is tension-bracing and evidence of a diamond-mullioned window in the south end wall.

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