Post Office the Post House

This building, originally a house and now divided into a house and a post office, likely dates to the 17th century or earlier, with substantial remodelling in the early 19th century. It has solid roughcast walls and a shallow-pitched, hipped slate roof. Two large rendered chimneys with tapered caps are located on the rear wall. The building is two storeys high and originally three windows wide. A blocked doorway, with an early 19th-century flat wooden hood supported by shaped brackets, is centrally located on the ground storey and is now filled with a plain wood-framed window featuring an opening light at the right-hand end and a two-panel transom light above. To the right is a late 19th- or early 20th-century shop front with flanking pilasters and a cornice, the cornice being supported at each end by paired brackets; a three-panel display window is canted to the left towards a recessed shop door. Other windows have plain box-framed sashes with horns. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest, and the building occupies an important position immediately northwest of the church of St Mary the Virgin.