Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office is a Grade II* listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. A Medieval Post office and cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office

WRENN ID
deep-turret-fern
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
Post office and cottage
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bell Cottage and Sissinghurst Post Office is a building that originally served as a cloth hall, dating back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th century and 18th-century cladding added. The structure features a timber frame set on a rendered plinth, with weatherboarding on the upper sections and a rendered ground floor on the right side. It has a plain tiled roof with a stack at the rear left and a gablet from the rear wing that rises above the main ridge towards the center. A brick stack is present on the rear wing.

The Sissinghurst Post Office is located to the right and has an irregular arrangement of three windows on the first floor, all of which are casements. There is a large shop front that projects on the left, featuring a central glazed door and a large casement window to the right of center, along with a boarded door to the right. Bell Cottage, on the left, is two stories high and has an irregular fenestration pattern with two windows on the first floor and one large window in the center on the ground floor, which are 19th-century casements. A boarded door with a central glazed panel is located to the right.

At the rear, there is a central two-storey wing that features a jettied gable and an octagonal oriel supported by brackets below. The west face of this wing also has a similar coved jettied gable, with a bressummer that is decorated with billet decoration and an octagonal oriel below on brackets. Inside, the building showcases a substantial timber frame with heavily jowled posts and chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor.

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