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Latitude: 51.8561 / 51°51'22"N
Longitude: 0.602 / 0°36'7"E
OS Eastings: 579286
OS Northings: 220706
OS Grid: TL792207
Mapcode National: GBR QKH.P01
Mapcode Global: VHJJK.DL3Y
Plus Code: 9F32VJ42+FQ
Entry Name: Grimwoods (Former Post Office)
Listing Date: 29 July 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1306817
English Heritage Legacy ID: 116391
ID on this website: 101306817
Location: Cressing, Braintree, Essex, CM77
County: Essex
District: Braintree
Civil Parish: Cressing
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Tagged with: Post office
CRESSING THE STREET
TL 72 SE (west side)
1/67 Grinwoods (former Post
Office)
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as P.O. House. Early C18, altered in C19. Timber
framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing S (gable
end to street) with axial stack to right of centre, forming a lobby-entrance,
and original full-length lean-to to rear, forming a catslide roof. One storey
with attics. 3-window range of mid-C19 sashes of 6 lights. Near-central CL9
door. The right return (facing the street) has a CL9 splayed shop window, a
flush 4-panel door with moulded surround and simple flat canopy, and one C19
casement in the lean-to. The rear elevation has one C19 horizontal sash of 9 +
9 lights, 2 CL9 casements and a plain boarded door. Deeply chamfered axial beam
in right bay. Wide wood-burning hearth facing to right, disused; wide
wood-burning hearth facing to left, reduced for C20 grate. Primary straight
bracing, including re-used timber. Original stair in rear lean-to. C19 corner
cupboard in rear right corner of left ground-floor room, door removed. All
original internal battened doors present. This house was formerly
weatherboarded; it is prototypical of the New England 'saltbox houses'.
Listing NGR: TL7928620706
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