Post Office Stores

This building began as a house, later converted into cottages and now serves as a house and shop. Its origins lie in the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is built with a timber frame, now plastered, and has a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The building’s layout is complex, comprising a main range facing southeast, a two-bay crosswing to the right with an 17th-century rear extension, and an 18th-century extension to the right of the crosswing. The left end of the main range is now roofed to resemble a crosswing. There are two internal stacks within the front range. A 17th-century wing extends to the rear, featuring an axial stack. A parallel range from the 19th century is located behind the main range, with a stack at its left end. Two 20th-century single-storey lean-to extensions are situated at the rear angle.

The ground floor has a 19th-century shopfront projecting forward, along with one 20th-century sash window, one 20th-century casement window, and three 20th-century doors; the central door has an early 19th-century pedimented hood supported by scrolled brackets. The first floor has four 20th-century sash windows and one 20th-century casement window. The right crosswing features an underbuilt jetty, and there are two gables.

The oldest part is the crosswing nearest the right end, which shows a chamfered binding beam with plain stops, jowled posts, a cambered central tiebeam, and likely a crownpost roof (currently inaccessible). A moulded axial beam is present in the hall range, to the right of the main stack, and a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops is to the left. A similar transverse beam is found in the rear wing at the left end. Most of the original timber structure is hidden by plaster.