The Old Post Office

The Old Post Office is a house dating to around the early 17th century, with significant alterations made in the late 19th century. The house is constructed of stone rubble, with the front elevation rendered. It has a rag slate roof with gabled ends, and a gable end to the rear right wing. There are two large stone rubble stacks, one with a brick shaft asymmetrically placed in the right-hand gable end, another with a brick shaft in the rear right-hand wing, and a more recent rendered brick stack heating the left-hand room.

The original layout of the house is uncertain, but it currently consists of a two-room range facing the road, with the entrance near the centre. The left-hand room is heated by a rear lateral stack, and the right-hand room by a gable end stack. A single-room wing extends to the rear right, heated by its own gable end stack. It is possible that the earlier house comprised the rear wing and the front right-hand room. The roof trusses suggest an original gable end facing the road, though the weathering on the right-hand gable end stack suggests it has always been gabled, originally centrally placed. It remains uncertain whether the earlier house had an 'L' shape, if the left-hand room replaced an earlier range, or if it is a later addition. A stair projection, likely for a newel staircase which has since been removed, is situated in the angle between the left-hand room and the rear right-hand wing.

The exterior is two stories high, with a regular three-window front featuring four-pane sashes and a late 19th-century glazed porch. The right-hand side elevation of the rear wing displays a mullion window opening, with a lintel. The gable end of the rear wing has a hollow chamfered surround to a two-light mullion window on the first floor.

The interior has been considerably altered, with 20th-century chimney-pieces and a late 19th-century staircase. Much of the roof structure has been replaced, with trusses from around the late 17th or early 18th century displaying lapped and pegged joints at the apices, and remodelled when the ridge of the rear wing was raised. The roof structure above the left-hand room is inaccessible.