Listed Building record TQ 73 NE 128 - BELL COTTAGE

Description from record TQ 73 NE 19 :
(TQ 79423752) PO (NAT) (1) Sissinghurst Post Office and Bell Cottage, (formerly listed as No 7 the Street, Sissinghurst, Sissinghurst Post Office with the Post- Masters's house, Rose Cottage, Sissinghurst). The Street, Sissinghurst. Grade II*. Cloth Hall, now post office and cottage. C15 altered in C16 with C18 cladding timber-framed. (2) [For full description see list].

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK THE STREET, (NORTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST 8/247 Sissinghurst Post 20.6.67 Office and Bell Cottage, (formerly listed as No 7 The Street, Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Post Office with the Post- Master's House, Rose Cottage, Sissinghurst) GV II*
Cloth hall, now post office and cottage. C15 altered in C16 with C18 cladding. Timber-framed on rendered plinth with weather-boarding cladding and rendered ground floor to right. Plain tiled roof with stack to rear at left, gablet of rear wing appearing over main ridge towards centre. Brick stack on rear wing. Sissinghurst Post Office, (to right). Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor, casements. Large shop-front projecting at left with central glazed door. Large casement window to right of centre. Boarded door to right. Bell Cottage, (to left). Two storeys. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on first floor and one large window in centre on ground floor, C19 casements. Boarded door with central glazed panel to right. Central 2-storey wing to rear, with jettied gable and octagonal oriel on brackets below. Similar coved jettied gable on west face of this wing, on bressummer decorated with billet decoration. Octagonal oriel below on brackets. Interior: Substantial timber-frame. Heavily jowled posts and chamfered ground floor ceiling beams.
Listing NGR: TQ7941637524 (3)

<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.

<2> DOE(HHR) Tunbridge Wells Dist Kent (Cranbrook Ph) 19th May 1986 89 (OS Card Reference). SKE41219.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.