Post Office Vaults

The Post Office Vaults is an inn that has been converted into a public house and shop. It was built around 1730 and had its front altered around 1760. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brick and features an old tile roof with a brick stack. It encloses a small yard that is now blocked off. The structure is three stories tall and has a four-window range.

The ground floor of No.50 has a late 19th-century front, with flat brick arches over blocked cellar windows on the right. Above, there is a Venetian window supported by Doric columns and early 18th-century sash windows, along with gauged brick semi-circular arches over early 18th-century sashes on the left. The second floor features gauged brick flat arches to the left and soldier arches to the right over sash windows. The building has a parapet and a hipped and half-hipped roof with ridge stacks.

The right side wall has a similar semi-circular arch over a sash window. The left side wall has a two-window range with a semi-circular arch and impost blocks above a mid-19th-century door, along with early to mid-19th-century border sashes and an early 18th-century sash in the top left. The adjacent No.51, which is early 18th-century, has a similar one-by-one block design with semi-circular arches over first-floor sashes in yellow brick jambs. The rear wall features a corbelled out lateral stack and a mid-19th-century stuccoed porch.

Inside, there are 18th-century cornices and early 18th-century two-panelled doors. An early 18th-century six-panelled door leads from the enclosed internal yard to the rear right room of No.50, which has a panelled dado and panelling from around 1730, likely reset, in the partition that divides it from No.51. There is an early 18th-century quarter-turn staircase to the right of No.50, featuring turned vase balusters on an open string and a panelled dado. The first-floor room to the left has round-headed doorways and cupboards with panelled reveals, while a similar round-headed doorway leads to the right room of No.50, which has a three-panelled door. Early 18th-century winder stairs provide access to the second floor.