The Old Post Office Whitegate Cottage

The Old Post Office and Whitegate Cottage are two houses that were originally built as one in the 17th century or earlier, with significant remodelling in the early to mid-19th century. The building has two storeys and features five windows. It was likely constructed with a three-cell plan and was extended to the right in the 19th century, later being divided into three cottages. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a 19th-century pantiled roof. There is an axial chimney made of pink and buff brick from the late 16th or early 17th century, along with two additional axial chimneys of red brick from the 19th century. On the first storey, there is a set of five early 19th-century horizontally-sliding small-pane casements. The ground storey has a 19th-century small-pane sash window on the left and mid-20th-century steel casements on the right. The central entrance door is a boarded 19th-century design. The interior has not been examined, but the building is included for its group value.