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Old Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Wetheringsett, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2577 / 52°15'27"N

Longitude: 1.1132 / 1°6'47"E

OS Eastings: 612570

OS Northings: 266732

OS Grid: TM125667

Mapcode National: GBR TKB.D90

Mapcode Global: VHL9T.7JV4

Plus Code: 9F437457+37

Entry Name: Old Post Office

Listing Date: 14 July 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1352494

English Heritage Legacy ID: 281680

ID on this website: 101352494

Location: Wetheringsett, Mid Suffolk, IP14

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford

Built-Up Area: Wetheringsett

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Wetheringsett All Saints

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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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

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