The Post Office

This house, dating to around 1500, has been altered in the late 16th century, the 19th century, and the 20th century. The building is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It is a 2-bay hall house aligned east-west, with a south-facing aspect, featuring an integral storeyed parlour or solar bay to the west and an integral storeyed service bay to the east. A late 16th-century axial chimney stack was inserted at the west end of the hall. A single-storey lean-to extension to the rear dates to the 19th or 20th century. The house is single-storey with attics. The front features two half-glazed doors, two 19th-century metal lattice windows, and one 20th-century casement window with diamond leading. The chimney stack has grouped diagonal shafts.

Inside, the building retains jowled posts, lodged plain joists with a horizontal section in the west bay, and a boxed axial beam in the east bay. A late 16th-century floor was inserted into the hall, featuring a chamfered axial beam and plain, horizontal section joists supported on pegged clamps. A partly blocked doorway with a shallow V-head is visible in the partition between the west bay and the hall. The roof was originally of crownpost construction but was later converted to clasped purlin construction, with the central tiebeam of the hall still present, although damaged. C17th or 18th-century pargetting (decorative plasterwork) is exposed within the rear extension. The west bay has historically been used as a bakehouse, and a large commercial oven is located to the north. A small portion of the building currently serves as a Post Office.