Description

TAWSTOCK TAWSTOCK
SS 52 NE
4/89 The Old Post Office (formerly
- listed as Post Office and Mrs
25.2.65 Alford's Cottage)

GV II

House. Formerly 2 cottages, the left side once a post office and shop. C17 with
C20 alterations. Stone rubble. Half-hipped concrete tiled roof. Front lateral
stack of stone rubble with brick shaft.
Original plan obscured by later alterations, probably a 2 room cottage to right with
small lower end and hall to right heated by lateral stack with winder staircase in
outshut to rear of hall. Single room cottage to left formerly the Post Office with
blocked staircase to rear between front room and rear gable-ended service wing
creating overall L-shaped plan. The ground floor partition wall between the 2
cottages has been removed creating one larger room from the single room cottage and
lower end of right hand cottage.
2 storeys. 2 window range. C20 fenestration. Porch at right end with gabled slate
roof. C19 2 light casement 4 panes per light above.
Interior wide chamfered cross beam with hollow step stops to lower end of right
hand cottage. Remaining ground floor beams and fireplace lintel boxed in or
plastered over. C17 stop-chamfered doorways to head of each staircase. Chamfered
beam to rear wing. Access to roofspace over hall of right end cottage only. Single
truss with steeply cranked typical C17 lap-jointed collar and 2 tiers of threaded
purlins. Feet of single truss visible to rear wing have short curved feet.

Listing NGR: SS5547229842

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545488

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)