The Post Office

The Post Office is a house, now a house with a shop, dating back to the late 17th century, with later additions from the 18th and 19th centuries, and some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of painted stone rubble, with an asbestos slate roof, gable ends, and gable end stacks with rubble shafts and slate weathering.

Originally, the house was a two-room plan, with a central entrance to a passage, each room heated by a gable end stack. In the 18th century, a two-storey gabled bay was extended to the front of the room on the right, and a two-storey wing of one-room plan was added to the rear right and rear left, each also heated by a gable end stack. The house was later occupied by two separate households, leading to the insertion of a second stair in the rear right wing; the original stair is located to the rear of the entrance passage. In the 19th century, the front of the passage was extended, a ground floor bay was added to the front of the room on the left, and a shop front was added to the front of the extended bay on the right, providing direct entrance into the shop.

The asymmetrical three-window front has a room to the left with a four-pane sash window with sidelights within a ground floor bay, with a pitched roof over, and a twelve-pane light at first floor. There is a two-storey lean-to at the front of the passage, featuring a 20th-century porch and a four-pane sash window. The gabled bay to the right has a canted shop front with plate-glass windows and a half-glazed door, with a four-pane light at first floor. The left side of the building is blank, while the two-storey rear wing has a half-glazed door and a gable end stack. The right side features an external stack and a four-pane light at first floor. The rear wing also has a half-glazed door, a four-pane light at ground and first floor, and a gable end stack.

Inside, the front left room features chamfered cross beams, an end fireplace with rubble jambs and a chamfered timber lintel with an oven to the rear right, and stud partition walls at ground floor. The rear left room in the wing has a slate floor. The roof includes boxed-in principal rafters which cross at the apex and are pegged with cambered collars. A later roof was constructed above the original trusses.