The Old Post Office

The Old Post Office is a house dating from the late 17th century, which was remodeled in the mid and late 18th century to function as both a cottage and a house. It features painted and roughly rendered undulating cob walls and a wheat-reed thatched roof with brick chimneys, including one axial stack and an adjoining lateral stack on the original rear walls, as well as chimneys over the gable ends. The building has a three-room through passage plan with thick outer walls and a late 18th-century rear outshut.

It is two storeys high with a three-window north front. All windows are late 18th-century sashes, either 20 or 15 panes, mostly retaining their original crown glass. The original doorway, with a ledged door, is located at the second opening from the left on the ground floor. The third opening was the central doorway from the first remodeling, while the fourth opening, which features a ledged door, was part of the original wide hall window dating from the late 18th century. The building has slate sills and wooden lintels that are plastered over. The rear outshut is notably low.

Inside, the original chamfered oak or elm beams are still visible in the east and west rooms. The east room previously contained an oven, although only the hearth remains, as all hearths are partly blocked. There is a late 19th-century cast iron range in the middle room. Two first-floor windows, one above the original hall and one in the west room, were originally wider. The late 18th-century pine roof structure features lapped and pegged collars and apices. The use of vertical-hung sashes is unusual for a house of this modest size, and it is rare for a complete set of such late 18th-century fenestration to survive.