Japonica Cottage Post Office Cottage Scolfes

WARTLING BOREHAM STREET TQ 6611

34/328 Boreham Street Post Office and G and M Phillips' Stores

GV II

shall be amended to read;

TQ 6611 WARTLING BOREHAM STREET

34/328 Scolfes, Japonica Cottage and Post Office Cottage

12.8.81 II

Three cottages and restaurant, formerly post office and stores and originally house. A complex building of c1394 with stone cellar and 3 bay open hall of Wealden type, timber fireplace inserted into hall in mid C16 and late C16 crosswing to east. A C17 fireplace was inserted into open hall, a crosswing added c1700 of which the ground floor was probably a mercer's shop (now Japonica Cottage) and the building refurbished c1765 by John Holland. C20 shopfront. Timberframed building, ground floor cement rendered, first floor weatherboarded. Tiled roof with half-hipped gable at east end. Two storeys; 5 windows. Mainly sashes with 16 panes. Post Office Cottage of one storey with casement. Rear elevation retains 2 late C16 hollow chamfered mullioned windows. Interior has stone barrel-vaulted cellar with 2 centred arched blocked entrance to Scolfes and first floor retains open truss with 'decorated' moulding. The late C16 croosswing retains ogee bracing. The front framing of the mid C16 timber chimney survives. Circa 1700 a crosswing of one room on each floor was added to the east with staggered butt purlin roof. Circa 1765 the C14 and late C16 roofs were replaced. [See Report no 580 by David Martin and Barbara Martin, 1995.]

WARTLING BOREHAM STREET 1. 5208 Boreham Street Post Office and G and M Phillips' Stores TQ 6611 34/328

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1. C18. Two storeys. Five windows. Ground floor faced with cement, above with weather-boarding. Tiled roof with half-hipped gable at east end. Projection at west end with a hip. Glazing bars intact, except in the easternmost window-bay which has casement windows. Modern shop front built out in the centre of ground floor.

Listing NGR: TQ6653711316