Listed Building: POSTING HOUSE (278209)

HALL STREET 1. 5377 (East Side) Long Melford Posting House (formerly listed as Purdy's Tea Rooms) TL 8645 21/458 10.1.53. II GV 2. Originally a C15-C16 timber-framed and plastered hall house with cross wings on the north and south ends. Altered in the C17 and C18 and restored in the C20. 2 storeys. The windows are mainly double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The centre block and north cross wing have C20 shop windows, and at the north end there is an addition with a carriageway. The south cross wing has C19 ornamental bargeboards and a doorcase with fluted pilasters and a cornice hood on brackets. Roof tiled, with a modillion eaves cornice to the centre block. The interior has exposed timber-framing and on the 1st storey a cambered tie beam with crown post. Listing NGR: TL8629645526