The Post Office Farmhouse

The Post Office Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a cottage and adjoining farm building, now functioning as a single house. It dates from the 18th century and is constructed of painted killas rubble and cob, featuring slate sills, segmental brick arches over ground floor openings, and timber lintels on the first floor. The house has a steep asbestos slate roof, which was formerly thatched, and brick chimneys positioned over rubble breasts at the gable ends. The roof extends over a later farm building to the right (east) at the same pitch.

To the left is a later 18th-century cottage that has a lower pitched corrugated asbestos roof, which was previously covered with scantle slate, and a brick chimney over the rubble gable end. The original plan of the farmhouse consisted of two rooms with a central passage and a rear stair turret located behind the left-hand room, which is now partly enclosed by a large 19th-century lean-to. A later 18th-century barn was added to the right-hand (west) end, featuring a roof that slopes lower to the rear over an angled projection with a rounded end wall. The left-hand end (west) was finally extended by a single-cell cottage with a stair turret or fuel store projection at the rear left.

The building is two storeys high, with a symmetrical two-window south front of the original farmhouse, flanked by a regular one-window front of the cottage on the left and the barn front on the right, which includes a small ventilation window on the first floor and 20th-century extensions on the ground floor. The farmhouse has a central doorway with an open-fronted porch that has a scantle roof and gable ends, with unpierced rubble side walls. A similar porch is present at the front right of the cottage. All windows are four-pane horned sashes, except for the six-paned windows on the ground floor of the farmhouse. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to be little altered. This building is a late example of houses with stair turret projections and is a rare survival of unaltered open-fronted porches from the late 18th to early 19th century.