Shackleford Post Office And Cottage Adjoining To North

Shackleford Post Office, The Old Barn Cottage, and the cottage adjoining to the north is a house with a shop on the right. It dates from the 17th century and was altered in the 19th century. The building is timber framed and sits on a rendered plinth, with sandstone rubble and brick dressings on the left-hand range. The centre and right sides are tile hung, featuring patterned bands and fishscale patterning. It has plain tiled roofs with ridge stacks located to the left and right of the centre. The structure is single storey with attics in the gables on either side of the centre, and there is a central pentice roof casement dormer. Each end has one first-floor casement window, and there are two ground-floor windows to the left of centre, each with tiled penticed hoods. To the right, there is one sash window on the ground floor, also under a similar hood. A half-glazed door is located to the right under a tiled pentice hood, with a shop door in the centre and an adjoining shop window to the left, both under a tiled hood. There is a half-glazed door at the left end.