Latitude: 51.1089 / 51°6'32"N
Longitude: 0.5616 / 0°33'41"E
OS Eastings: 579416
OS Northings: 137524
OS Grid: TQ794375
Mapcode National: GBR PT6.JS7
Mapcode Global: VHJN6.PD87
Plus Code: 9F324H56+HM
Entry Name: Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post Office
Listing Date: 20 June 1967
Last Amended: 19 May 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1084811
English Heritage Legacy ID: 169098
ID on this website: 101084811
Location: Sissinghurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
Built-Up Area: Sissinghurst
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Post office Cottage
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
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