Weeks Of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office And Attached Ranges To North And West Weeks Of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office And Ranges To West

This is a house, shop, and workshop, now shops with domestic accommodation, dating back to the 18th and early 19th centuries. The house, facing Lees Road, is constructed of chequered red and grey brick. Adjacent to the left (west) is a former workshop, also of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with a parallel rear range of red brick. A shop fronts Lees Road, with painted brick and weatherboarding to High Street, and the Post Office is weatherboarded to High Street. The roofs are slate to the rear range of the workshop and plain tile to the rest of the building.

The workshop was likely built in the early 19th century, the house in the late 18th or early 19th century, and the shop around the same period. The Post Office, along with its two parallel rear ranges which function as rear wings to the house, were probably built in the early 19th century. The house is two storeys and has attics; the remaining parts are two storeys. The roof is hipped at the left end of the workshop and half-hipped to the shop facing High Street. The Post Office and rear ranges have higher eaves and ridges, with two gables and one half-hip. There is a modillioned eaves cornice to the Post Office. A central red and grey brick stack runs parallel to the ridge of the house. A gable end stack is on the Post Office, with another stack between the rear ranges.

The house has two hipped dormers with two-paned casements. The front has a regular two-window arrangement of four-pane sashes in open boxes, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs to the ground-floor window. The central door is of six fielded panels with a flat corniced hood. The workshop has irregular fenestration with two four-pane sashes on the first floor, three similar ground-floor sashes with segmental heads, and a blocked carriage entrance to the right end, adjoining the house. The shop has no windows facing Lees Road. The High Street return features one two-light window to the gable end of the shop, and one single-light and one two-light window to the Post Office. A half-glazed door serves the shop, and half-glazed double doors with a flat hood serve the Post Office.

Inside the house, the rear wall is timber-framed with relatively light scantling, featuring chamfered beams, a moulded wooden first-floor mantelshelf, attic stairs behind the stack, and a clasped-purlin roof. The shop has a common-rafter roof. The staircase within the rear range has moulded cheeks and balusters.