17th Century Farnham Common farmhouse built before mail slots became fashionable
The front door of Mead Farm at Farnham Common doesn’t have a letter slot. The postman delivers Christmas cards along with the rest of the mail to a safe place in the porch. That’s because the farmhouse in Beaconsfield Road was built in 1687, 200 years before 1849 when Queen Victoria’s government urged builders to fit a slot with a flap in the front door of new houses. A letter box was the latest mod con for homebuyers in Victorian England. Up until then, post was delivered to private houses by horse-drawn mail coach. The present owners of Mead Farm, graphic designer Jon Will...
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