Description

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST ASHURST HILL, ASHURST

7/432 Ashurst Post Office (formerly
7.4.82 listed as The Post Office)

II

House, part was formerly the post office. Late C17/early C18, some C19 and
circa 1982 extensions. Timber-framed and clad with weatherboards; brick
stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Small 2-room plan house on a rough south east, north west axis. The
larger south western room has a gable-end stack. This is now at the back.
The former service end front room is gable-end towards the road. A one-room
plan C19 extension to right has a projecting gable-end stack and a lean-to
outshot across the front was, until circa 1982, the post office and general
stores. Circa 1982 one-room extension projects to right rear with
contemporary service rooms behind.

2 storeys.

Exterior: The lean-to (the former shop) has 2 C20 front fixed-pane windows
with glazing bars and C20 door into the left end. First floor of main block
has an old, probably C19 casement to left containing small panes of '
rectangular glass, this under the gable-end of the original house. C19
extension to right contains an original 16-pane sash, and its roof is gable-
ended.

Interior: The old part has plain square-panel framing of relatively slender
scantling. Partition has been removed at ground floor level between the 2
original rooms. Main room has a plain chamfered crossbeam. Fireplace is
partly blocked. It is plastered with a plain oak lintel. Roof inaccessible
but the 1982 list description reports "roof of heavy coupled rafters with a
few high collars and purlins at a low level".

Listing NGR: TQ5075738974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26639276

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