Lane Hatch Post Office

Lane Hatch Post Office is a pair of cottages, now functioning as a cottage and post office, likely built in the late 17th century with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble and features stone slate roofs. It stands two storeys tall with a gable-lit attic.

On the upper floor, there are three 19th-century casement windows directly beneath the eaves, with an infilled opening to the right of the left window. The ground floor has four 19th-century casement windows and fixed-light windows, all with wooden lintels, and an infilled doorway to the right of the right window. There are integral end stacks with dripstones, with the left stack having been rebuilt in 19th-century yellow brick. A red brick ridge stack is located at the junction between the two parts of the building, which is marked by a straight joint.

The interior of the post office was inspected and features chamfered spine beams on both the ground and first floors. There are several panelled and plank doors, including a 19th-century door with blind Gothic tracery patterns on the ground floor. An oak winder staircase leads from the first floor to the attic, which has a collar truss roof with principal rafters rising from the wall tops.

There is a lower 20th-century addition to the right, which includes two 3-light mullion windows with dripstones directly below the eaves. Additionally, there is a single-storey flat-roofed addition on the left that houses a shop, and a two-storey gabled range at right angles to the rear on the left, neither of which are of special architectural interest.