The Old Post Office

The Old Post Office is a house that was used as the village post office for some time. It dates from around 1770, with the name James Perfect George inscribed on one of the window panes from 1777. The building features a ground floor made of killas rubble, with rendered cob above, and a steep asbestos slate roof that was formerly thatched, along with brick chimneys at the gable ends. It has cast-iron ogee-section gutters.

The layout consists of a two-room plan with an entrance lobby between the rooms and a stair outshut located behind the right-hand room. The left-hand room, originally the parlour, had a shallow pantry partitioned off at the rear. There is a later single-storey extension, which was formerly the post office, positioned at right angles in front of the right-hand side, along with 20th-century extensions at the far right.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window front with a doorway slightly to the right of the middle. The original house has a 19th-century four-panel door and original 18th-century twelve-pane two-light casements with centre-hung opening lights, including some old glass and bulls-eye panes. One of the lights above the doorway has been replaced in the 20th century.

Inside, the building remains largely unaltered, featuring a large fireplace with a cloam oven in the right-hand room, moulded ceiling beams, and an original roof structure with close-spaced hardwood pegged trusses.