Post Office

The Post Office, built in 1897 by HM Office of Works, is a Grade II listed building located on West Street. It features a lively Renaissance style, constructed from red brick with terracotta dressings and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the two right bays projecting slightly under a tall gable adorned with foliage ornament and a crown ball finial. The roof is very high-pitched, topped with tall chimneys that have lesenes and stepped cornices.

In the left bay, there is an eight-panel double door set in a moulded and chamfered frame, with paired trefoil-headed windows above, all under a deeply moulded four-centred arch. The building has a stone plinth and features mullioned and transomed windows, which are round-headed above and trefoiled below, with joggled voussoirs and irregular block jambs. A small hipped dormer is situated behind the battlemented parapet of the left bay.

Additionally, a plaque on the site commemorates it as the location of the house of Thomas Bewick, the celebrated engraver and illustrator.