Chart House And Adjoining Former Post Office And Shop

Chart House and the adjoining former post office and shop is a building with origins dating back to the 16th or 17th century. It was extended and largely rebuilt around 1840, with further alterations made in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame, which is plastered in panels, along with some red brick elements. It has shallow hipped slate roofs and consists of three bays, with a lower bay to the right and two bays that include the shop to the left. The building is two storeys tall.

On the ground floor, there is a brick base with a central entrance that features a two-arched panelled architraved door. This is sheltered by a shallow 'Doric' porch that has a dentilled pedimental hood and fluted columns. To the left of the entrance, there are single glazing bar sash windows with hoodmoulds. The first floor has 8:8 pane sashes, all set in shallow reveals, and the eaves are boxed. There are two axial white brick stacks on the rear slope serving the outer bays. The right bay is slightly set back and has two-light glazing bar casements, along with a red brick axial stack on the rear slope. The former post office and shop is set back to the left, featuring a 20th-century projecting shopfront on the ground floor and a recessed fixed 9 pane window on the first floor, which has been extended to the left with an entrance.

At the rear, the roofs continue over one-storey and attic lean-tos, which are faced with red brick on the right. Inside, the right-hand bays retain some early studding, a chamfered axial binding beam, and stop-chamfered joists. There is a 19th-century staircase with a moulded and swept handrail. The first floor has not been inspected.