ASHURST POST OFFICE

ASHURST POST OFFICE, ASHURST HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356639
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: ASHURST POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: ASHURST POST OFFICE, ASHURST HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356639
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ASHURST POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: ASHURST POST OFFICE, ASHURST HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ASHURST POST OFFICE, ASHURST HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 50939 38936

Details

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST ASHURST HILL, ASHURST

7/432 Ashurst Post Office (formerly 7.4.82 listed as The Post Office)

II

House, part was formerly the post office. Late C17/early C18, some C19 and circa 1982 extensions. Timber-framed and clad with weatherboards; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Small 2-room plan house on a rough south east, north west axis. The larger south western room has a gable-end stack. This is now at the back. The former service end front room is gable-end towards the road. A one-room plan C19 extension to right has a projecting gable-end stack and a lean-to outshot across the front was, until circa 1982, the post office and general stores. Circa 1982 one-room extension projects to right rear with contemporary service rooms behind.

2 storeys.

Exterior: The lean-to (the former shop) has 2 C20 front fixed-pane windows with glazing bars and C20 door into the left end. First floor of main block has an old, probably C19 casement to left containing small panes of ' rectangular glass, this under the gable-end of the original house. C19 extension to right contains an original 16-pane sash, and its roof is gable- ended.

Interior: The old part has plain square-panel framing of relatively slender scantling. Partition has been removed at ground floor level between the 2 original rooms. Main room has a plain chamfered crossbeam. Fireplace is partly blocked. It is plastered with a plain oak lintel. Roof inaccessible but the 1982 list description reports "roof of heavy coupled rafters with a few high collars and purlins at a low level".

Listing NGR: TQ5075738974

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Legacy System number:: 438497
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.