Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office

CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/247 Sissinghurst Post 20.6.67 Office and Bell Cottage, (formerly listed as No 7 The Street, Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Post Office with the Post- Master's House, Rose Cottage, Sissinghurst) GV II*

Cloth hall, now post office and cottage. C15 altered in C16 with C18 cladding. Timber-framed on rendered plinth with weather-boarding cladding and rendered ground floor to right. Plain tiled roof with stack to rear at left, gablet of rear wing appearing over main ridge towards centre. Brick stack on rear wing. Sissinghurst Post Office, (to right). Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor, casements. Large shop-front projecting at left with central glazed door. Large casement window to right of centre. Boarded door to right. Bell Cottage, (to left). Two storeys. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on first floor and one large window in centre on ground floor, C19 casements. Boarded door with central glazed panel to right. Central 2-storey wing to rear, with jettied gable and octagonal oriel on brackets below. Similar coved jettied gable on west face of this wing, on bressummer decorated with billet decoration. Octagonal oriel below on brackets. Interior: Substantial timber-frame. Heavily jowled posts and chamfered ground floor ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: TQ7941637524