The Old Post Office

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

DANBURY The following buildings shall be added: TL 70 NE Main Road (North side) 10/952 No 100 (The Old Post Office) II

House. Late C16/early C17, with late C19 alterations and extensions. Render over timber frame; gabled old tile roof, with pantiles to rear outshut; late C19 brickleft end and rear lateral stacks. 2 unit plan, with late C19 brick outshut and extension to rear; late C19 wing added to front. One storey and attic; 2 window range. Late C19 four-panelled (2 glazed) door to centre, with trellised porch. Late C19 three-light casements; gabled half-dormers with bargeboards; 2 light casement over door. Late C19 one-storey right-angled brick extension to right; late C19 two-storey extension and outshut to rear. Interior: C19 plank doors; cased beam to right; chamfered beam with stepped run-out stops. Exposed timber framing with jowled storey posts braced to chamfered tie beam; no access to roof space. The right-hand room of this house functioned as the village post office between 1875 and 1931.

Listing NGR: TL7769805408

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1581 IOE Records taken by Richard Phillips; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Richard Phillips. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project