Old Post Cottage

Old Post Cottage is an 18th-century detached cottage that has been extended in the late 20th century, with the later additions considered to be of lesser interest. The cottage is constructed of rendered cob walls on a flint base, featuring timber casement windows and a thatched roof.

The original cottage, which faces south, comprises two elements. The eastern side contains the original cottage, centered on a front door and with an open-plan ground floor and an opening to the northwest connecting to the extension. The first floor contains two bedrooms, with a passageway at the rear also connecting to the western extension. The late 20th-century extension to the west includes a porch, a kitchen, a cloakroom, a sitting room, and a straight staircase to the rear. The upper floor consists of two bedrooms and a bathroom.

The original cottage is a symmetrical, three-bay, two-storey building with gable stacks. It has a central doorway with a probably 20th-century brick porch featuring a round-headed arch and a 20th-century door. Double-glazed casement windows, also of 20th-century date, are located on either side of the ground and first floors. The eastern and rear elevations are largely blind, although a 20th-century outshut at the rear includes a casement window.

The late 20th-century extension slightly projects to the west of the original cottage and has a higher ridge. The south-facing elevation features a half-hipped gable and casement windows on each storey, including an eyebrow dormer. The western elevation also has a thatched porch with a 20th-century door and irregular casement windows, along with an eyebrow dormer. The rear elevation sees the thatch extend down near to ground level, incorporating another eyebrow dormer window. The ground-floor window arrangement to the rear of the extension is irregular.

Internally, the original cottage has slender, white-painted floor joists supported by a lightweight spine beam. A rebuilt brick fireplace surround, in the form of an inglenook with a later bressumer, is located at the western end. This is supported by back-to-front beams secured with tusk tenon joints. The ground floor has no internal doors, and the first-floor doors and partition wall are all 20th-century. One of the bedrooms on the upper floor has a single timber roof support that passes through the sloping ceiling. The attic features an A-frame roof built with roughly-squared timbers, some of which have been replaced with 20th-century machine-cut equivalents. The extension has typical 20th-century fixtures and fittings.

A circular well is located southwest of the cottage. It stands approximately 1 meter in diameter and 0.5 meters high, with a rendered finish and a circular, timber-boarded cover.