Post Office And Stores

The Post Office and Stores is a house with a shop, dating from the mid to late 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, topped by a hipped pantiled roof. The building has a three-cell lobby entry plan with additions at the service end and stands two storeys tall with a five-window front.

On the ground floor, the entrance is located to the right of centre and features an 18th-century six fielded panelled door with a pedimented architrave. To the left of the entrance is a large 19th-century sash window, and to the right are two glazing bar sashes with flush frames and ornamental blind boxes. At the far left, there is a projecting brick shop from the 19th century, which includes a large window and a door with a fanlight. The first floor has 6-pane sashes and an 18th-century eaves cornice. A cross axial ridge stack has been rebuilt in white brick, while the left return has a truncated external stack.

At the rear left, there is an 18th-century dairy/bakehouse wing with an entrance in the return and a gable end internal stack. A 19th-century lean-to has been added to the rear. Inside, the ground floor hall features a cavetto mullioned three-light opening and a jowled post supporting a double roll moulded cross axial binding beam with similar joists. The parlour contains a deeply chamfered axial binding beam, with some brick nogging repair visible on the end wall. On the first floor, above the hall at the rear, there is a diamond mullioned five-light opening and an arched brace connecting the jowled post to a cambered tie beam. The roof structure consists of butt purlins with angled struts to collars and halved principal rafters.