Lanchester Post Office

The building is a house and shop, dating to 1788. It is constructed of painted, thinly-rendered coursed sandstone with quoins and painted ashlar dressings, and has a stone-flagged roof with ashlar and brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high and three bays wide. The right-hand bay of the ground floor contains a door leading to the house, with a tooled flat stone surround and an inscription in the lintel reading "Mary and Sarah Brown 1788". The shop door is centrally positioned on the ground floor, also with a similar surround. The shop window on the left-hand side of the ground floor has narrow wood pilasters and a plain wood fascia. The ground floor window to the right of the first bay has a similar surround. The first floor has late 19th-century sash windows in the first bay, and in the third bay. A trompe-l'oeil twelve-pane sash window is located in the centre of the first floor.