Description

EAST WORLINGTON EAST WORLINGTON
SS 71 SE
8/16
The Post Office

GV II
Probably formerly a pair of cottages, now house-with shop and post office. Probably
C17 origin, remodelled and extended in C18 and C19. Rubble and cob, rendered,
colourwashed, straw-thatched roof with gable ends; brick stacks.
Plan: 3 room plan, middle room with an axial stack backing onto left room; no sign
of a through-passage; right room narrower with rear corner stack which may indicate
this end of the house rebuilt.
Exterior: single storey and attic, asymmetrical 2:2 windows, 3 on first floor with
C18 leaded lights, further similar casement to left of ground floor; C19 gabled
dormer to right of first floor, large 8-pane C19 shop window on ground floor. 2
door openings with plank doors, to right into the shop, to left into the house.
Interior: the right room with 2 chamfered lateral ceiling beams with step-stops,
corner fireplace with a chamfered beam, oven, iron door; chamfered ceiling beads to
centre room; room to left with ceiling beams with thin chamfers. Roof not seen, feet
of principal straight suggesting rebuild. Shop with brick floor.

Listing NGR: SS7739613785

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592666

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014