WEST MALLING TQ6857 SWAN STREET 1156-0/3/135 Nos.1 AND 3 01/08/52 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Post Office (Sorting office only) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Shop premises occupied by E.Baldock & Son) GV II Shop. Late medieval building, underbuilt, refronted and a mansard roof added in early C19. Exterior has ground floor of painted brick and stuccoed 1st floor with incised lines to imitate masonry. Stuccoed plinth. Slate mansard roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 windows. attic storey has 3 casements. 1st floor has 3 16-pane sashes and further sash to High Street elevation. Swan Street elevation has 3 plain shopfronts with wooden pilasters and brackets and large fascia. High Street elevation has 2 similar shopfronts and 4-panelled door, now blocked. Interior has dragon beams, showing that it was once jettied and door heads on the 1st floor. Deeds show ownership from the sale of the house about 1620. The property was indentured to many notable people including 2 Grooms to the Bedchamber of Charles II and Judge Twisden who tried the regicides. (Crozier P: Survey of the buildings in West Malling: ITEM 8). Listing NGR: TQ6805857828