Old Post Office And Attached Reading Room/Institute

The Old Post Office and attached Reading Room/Institute is a house and institute built around 1840. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features tile roofs with brick stacks.

The house is a single-storey building with an attic and has a three-window range. There is a gabled forward break to the left of center, wide eaves, and decorative bargeboards with finials. The segmental-headed openings are single-chamfered. The entrance to the forward break has a battened door with strap hinges and a bracketed gabled canopy. To the right, there is a canted bay window with a hipped roof over three lattice-glazed lights. A carriage entrance at the right end has a label mould raised over a blank ashlar panel, leading to projecting 20th-century garage doors. The window on the ground floor left end features a label mould over a two-light casement with lattice glazing. The first floor has similar casements in the gable and gabled half dormer on each side. There is a cross-axial stack with two diagonal shafts.

The institute portion is also a single-storey building with a three-window range, and it has a later range attached to the rear at right angles, featuring a re-entrant porch. The front range has a plain plinth and three segmental-headed, single-chamfered windows with stone sills, label moulds, and two-light frames. There is a lateral stack to the rear with two shafts, and the right return has a similar, taller window. The porch has a stone-coped parapet and a straight-headed entrance with a plank door and return light with a label. The rear range has offset buttresses between windows with small-paned lights above inserted 20th-century casements.

The building was constructed by the Lucy family for the use of the villagers. The interior has not been inspected.