Icknield Way Cottage With Shop And Post Office

Icknield Way Cottage with Shop and Post Office is an early 18th-century house with a shop extension, altered in the early and later 19th century. The house is timber-framed and has a roughcast exterior. It features a steeply pitched, half-hipped thatched roof and a two-cell lobby entry plan. The house has two storeys. The main entrance is on the right side of the centre and is marked by a six-panelled door within a reveal, retaining its original architrave with a pulvinated frieze and pediment. There are three and four-light transomed casement windows with flush moulded frames and hoodboards. A ridge stack is located behind the entrance. A canted bay window with exposed plates projects from the right-hand ground floor. A two-bay addition to the left, dating to the 19th century, is constructed of rendered brick with a slate roof. A mid to late 19th-century shop front projects from the ground floor; it has a splayed recess, a central entrance with a two-over-three glazed door and panelled dado, colonnettes framing the windows, and a cornice over the fascia board. A lean-to outshut is located at the left end. At the rear are scattered casements, a single-storey lean-to, and flat-roofed additions. The interior has not been inspected.