Post Office

This is a house, now incorporating ground floor shops and a post office with a flat above. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. The front is timber-framed and plastered, with masonry lining, and the ground floor has been rebuilt in colourwashed brick. It has old tiled roofs, with a gabled cross wing to the right and a carriageway to the left.

The building is two storeys and has attics, with a raised bay window over the carriageway. The front has two bays, with the cross wing extending to the rear as an outshut. The first floor has a two-light wooden casement above the carriageway, two widely spaced twelve-pane sash windows with architraves in the centre, and a 20th-century three-light small-paned wooden casement to the right. The ground floor features exposed posts at the front of the carriageway, and a mounted postal box with an enamelled plate reading "GR Post Office Letter Box" dating from around 1910. A 19th-century shopfront has two display windows, and to the left of the central door, there’s a closed window with eight large panes set in a reeded pilaster surround. To the right is a segmental oriel bow window with ten large panes, where a bressumer is visible from inside. The full-width board fascia has reeded mouldings and an overhanging flat moulded cornice. The doorway contains twin leaf half-glazed doors with a recessed flush lower panel, set in a reeded pilaster surround, and an inner glazed door. A 20th-century hip-roofed attic casement dormer is located to the right of centre, and a box casement dormer is at the rear. There's a short red brick chimneystack to the left front, and a taller yellow brick chimneystack at the rear.

Inside, the ground floor shop has a heavy timber beam with a chamfer and tongue stop. This is subdivided by a timber open partition with arched openings along the line of the stud partition above. The Post Office area to the right, under a jetty, has a 20th-century half-glazed door and a closed plate glass window. The first floor has a braced tie beam truss where it joins the rear outshut. The cross wing has ceilings at collar level, and the positions of earlier windows are visible either side of the three-light casement in the front wall of the first-floor front room. The middle front room has an 18th-century wood cornice. The attic has smoke-blackened rafters and mortices for collar purlins, indicating a former crown post roof structure.