Description

WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD
TM 16 NW
3/95 Nos. 1 & 2, Old Post
- Office

-- II
Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C16 with mid C20 renovation. Timber
framed and rendered. Thatched roof, hipped over service end to right. 3-
cell form. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows, mid C20 2-light casements without
glazing bars. Former entrance porch below stack, the door now replaced by a
window. Matching mid C20 doorways to left and right, each with plank door and
a flanking full-height window. Stack has rebuilt axial shaft. Interior.
Considerably modernised. Some good quality studding in hall and chamber
above, with evidence for original windows. Hall has chamfered-joist ceiling,
the main beam with broach stop-chamfers at one end. Mutilated moulded lintol
over hall fireplace. Service partition removed and replaced by later studded
cross-partition in lower bay of hall. Queen-post roof. Use as post office
ceased in 1884.

Listing NGR: TM1257066732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635505

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)