Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office
BELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1084811
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1084811
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SISSINGHURST POST OFFICE, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SISSINGHURST POST OFFICE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79416 37524
Details
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/247 Sissinghurst Post 20.6.67 Office and Bell Cottage, (formerly listed as No 7 The Street, Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Post Office with the Post- Master's House, Rose Cottage, Sissinghurst) GV II*
Cloth hall, now post office and cottage. C15 altered in C16 with C18 cladding. Timber-framed on rendered plinth with weather-boarding cladding and rendered ground floor to right. Plain tiled roof with stack to rear at left, gablet of rear wing appearing over main ridge towards centre. Brick stack on rear wing. Sissinghurst Post Office, (to right). Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor, casements. Large shop-front projecting at left with central glazed door. Large casement window to right of centre. Boarded door to right. Bell Cottage, (to left). Two storeys. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on first floor and one large window in centre on ground floor, C19 casements. Boarded door with central glazed panel to right. Central 2-storey wing to rear, with jettied gable and octagonal oriel on brackets below. Similar coved jettied gable on west face of this wing, on bressummer decorated with billet decoration. Octagonal oriel below on brackets. Interior: Substantial timber-frame. Heavily jowled posts and chamfered ground floor ceiling beams.
Listing NGR: TQ7941637524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169098
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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