Old Post Office

Date:
22 Jul 2002
Location:
Old Post Office, 1 And 2, Wetheringsett Cum Brockford, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk
Reference:
IOE01/07566/16
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

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

WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD TM 16 NW 3/95 Nos. 1 & 2, Old Post - Office

-- II Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C16 with mid C20 renovation. Timber framed and rendered. Thatched roof, hipped over service end to right. 3- cell form. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows, mid C20 2-light casements without glazing bars. Former entrance porch below stack, the door now replaced by a window. Matching mid C20 doorways to left and right, each with plank door and a flanking full-height window. Stack has rebuilt axial shaft. Interior.

Considerably modernised. Some good quality studding in hall and chamber above, with evidence for original windows. Hall has chamfered-joist ceiling, the main beam with broach stop-chamfers at one end. Mutilated moulded lintol over hall fireplace. Service partition removed and replaced by later studded cross-partition in lower bay of hall. Queen-post roof. Use as post office ceased in 1884.

Listing NGR: TM1257066732

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0468 IOE Records taken by John Cooper; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr John Cooper. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Cooper, John

Rights Holder: Cooper, John

Keywords

Render, Thatch, Timber, Medieval Farmhouse, Tudor Domestic, Elizabethan Agricultural Dwelling, Dwelling, House, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Timber Framed House, Monument (By Form), Timber Framed Building, Post Office, Commercial, Communications, Postal System Structure