The Old Town Post Office Including Front Area Railings

The Old Town Post Office, which includes the front area railings, is a house that was originally two cottages, with the northern cottage serving as the post office. It likely dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with some minor modernizations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has a plinth made of coursed sandstone and is timber-framed, with square panel framing visible at ground floor level on the front, where it is nogged with red brick. The rest of the building is hung with peg-tile, and there is a brick stack and chimney shaft. The roof is also covered with peg-tile.

The house has a three-room plan and faces east-north-east, built down a hillslope. The largest room is in the center and features a rear lateral stack. It appears to have been constructed as a single house, later divided into two in the 18th or 19th century, and has since been reunited. One of the unheated rooms was likely used as a workshop or shop.

The building is two stories high with attics in the roof space and lean-to outshots at the rear. The exterior has an irregular three-window front with old casements that contain diamond panes of leaded glass. There are two front doorways, each from the former cottages, which feature 19th-century plank doors under shallow timber hoods. The roof is gable-ended and extends over the outshots at the rear. The plinth is notably high on the left (southern) end due to the sloping ground.

Inside, the building shows evidence of 19th and 20th-century modernizations. The ground floor fireplace has been relined with 20th-century brick. The only exposed carpentry on the ground floor includes the lintel and a crossbeam in the central room, both of which have plain chamfers. The attics are plastered, making it impossible to examine the roof structure.

In front of the left (southern) former cottage, there is a small garden enclosed by 19th-century cast iron railings set into a sandstone sleeper wall, which includes gate posts topped with fleur-de-lys finials.

The surrounding buildings around the Green are all old and have not undergone significant modernization in the 20th century. Old Groombridge is noted for its picturesque quality and is a rare collection of unspoilt historic buildings, all connected to Groombridge Place.