Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/12/2017

TL 96 SW,4/77

HESSETT,
THE STREET (WEST SIDE),
The Old Post Office

(Formerly listed as: Anglia Audio Hi-Fi centre)

GV

II

Shop and dwelling, c.1520-1550. Two storeys. 3-cell cross-entry plan.
Timber-framed and plastered. Concrete tiled roof, hipped to right, (once thatched).
An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in mid C20 red brick. Mid C19 casements.
Two large late C19/early C20 shop windows. Half-glazed panelled C19 door at
cross-entry position. Heavy and quite complete timber-framing.
Tension-braced studding with blocked diamond-mullioned windows. Deeply chamfered
1st-floor beams, unchamfered joists of medieval proportions. Crown-post roof: the
square post over the centre of the hall is completely unbraced; slender
arch braces at posts in partition trusses at some points. One bay of the 2-bay
parlour cell to left was demolished and replaced by a taller parlour block in
late C19. A separate chimney bay between hall and parlour: the chimney has
back-to-back open fireplaces (blocked). A lean-to C17/C18 dairy extension to
right, and C19 additions to rear.

Listing NGR: TL9360461683

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573331

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)