Old Post House

The Old Post House is a former house and post office, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, with 19th and early 20th-century additions and alterations. It was later refurbished and converted to offices in 2017. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with a stuccoed rear elevation; it has a plain tile roof. It is three storeys high with a basement and consists of five bays, with an addition to the rear right.

The symmetrical front elevation has a chamfered plinth concealing the heads of bricked-up basement windows, and first and second-floor bands. A six-panel door is set behind two steps, with a fanlight featuring petalled glazing bars within a panelled surround. A wooden architrave flanks the door with pilasters having leafy capitals and console-bracketed hood. Windows are set in reveals, with flat brick arches and projecting stone sills. Ground-floor windows are C20 sashes, while the first floor has sixteen-pane sashes (with some glazing bars missing from the fourth bay). The second floor has unequally-hung twelve-pane sashes to bays three and five, with painted dummy windows (of twelve panes) in the other bays. A parapet with flat coping conceals a hipped, two-span roof with end stacks. An early 20th-century porch with a door in the right return has been added to the right side of the building.

The right return has three bays mirroring the front, but with a porch to the left-hand ground-floor bay and a central first-floor window that is a dummy. Only the left bay has a second floor and a painted window; a dormer is situated over the right bay.

At the rear, the main range has stuccoed ashlar detailing. A ground-floor bow window features three curved sixteen-pane sashes, an entablature, and a modillion cornice. A twelve-pane sash is positioned on the first floor. To the left is an added range of two wide bays with a curved right-hand corner. The right bay is set back and has an attached columned arcade, broken at the corner by later brickwork; a curved tripartite sash is situated on the first floor, and the eaves cornice is dentilled and modillioned.