No. 2 (Post Office) And No. 4 (Elmend)

SO 8003 SW LEONARD STANLEY SEVEN WATERS (north side)

12/77 No 2 (Post Office) and No 4 (Elmend)

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Two houses. Early Cl7; additions of 1635 and later Cl?; early C19 alterations. Coursed rubble limestone; timber framing with brick and rendered infill; ashlar chimneys rebuilt in brick; shingle roof, plain tile to part of Elmend. Two-storey with attic and cellar; long single-storey with attic range on north side to form T-plan. C20 shop and rear addition to Elmend are not of special interest. Front: gable to early C17 house and full chimney gable on east side. Single-window fenestration: 2-light mullioned casement with badly weathered surround to cellar, 2-light with round-arched heads to ground and upper floors, 2-light recessed cavetto mullioned with hoodmould to attic. Shaped C19 barge board. Former 2-light casement on west side altered to form doorway. Front wall of Elmend to left is C20 rebuilding with raised roof pitch. Rear: timber framing of range exposed with variety of framing types. Earliest part to left is side of formerly jettied east end with diagonal bracing to top panels. Extended c1635 to form rear wing of front block. Further later C17 extension to right in small framing, now part of Elmend. Scattered casements; single raking roof dormer to Post Office. Two ridge- mounted chimneys at junction with front block, left dated M C 1635. East gable end: rubble to ground floor, plaster carried over timber framed gable above. C19 and C20 casements. Shaped barge board.

Listing NGR: SO8006603494