Pele House

Pele House, formerly known as the Post Office, is a house with bastle character dating from the 16th century. It was converted into a shop in 1818, with minor alterations around 1880. The building is constructed of heavy rubble with large quoins and tooled dressings, topped with a stone slate roof.

The house has three storeys and two wide bays. The central entrance features double doors, while the shop front on the left includes a central twelve-pane sash window flanked by two four-pane sashes. The lintel above is inscribed with "J.T." for John Trevelyan, dated 1818. To the right, there is another twelve-pane sash window. On the first floor, the left bay has a late 19th-century sash window, with the remains of an original door to the right, and a renewed twelve-pane sash in the right bay. The second floor has small four-pane casements. The gables are adorned with moulded kneelers and overlapped slab coping, with stepped and corniced stacks at the ends. The left side of the building has a small window, a blocked square window in a chamfered surround above it, and a sixteen-pane sash on the second floor.

At the rear, there is a wing divided into two sections. The mid-18th-century part, which was heightened in 1818, features a Yorkshire sash window set in a blocked doorway with a chamfered surround, and a similar sash window inserted above. The gable is also similar. The two-storey section, heightened around 1880, has Yorkshire sashes and a matching gable with a small stepped and corniced stack. A single-storey range to the left is not of interest.

Inside, the walls are approximately 1.3 metres thick. Although it appears to be a bastle rather than a tower, the building seems to have been three storeys from the beginning.