Post Office Cottage The Post Office

Post Office Cottage, also known as The Post Office, is a house dating back to the 17th century or earlier. It may originally have been built alongside Potters, a late medieval house situated to the left. The house has undergone 20th-century renovations, including some internal repartitioning. It is constructed of creamwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, with a thatched roof featuring a plain ridge and gabled ends. There are end and rear lateral stacks.

The original plan comprised a single-depth main range, initially three rooms wide, with a 19th or 20th-century passage introduced through the centre room, and a rounded stair projection extending from this passage. A single-storey rear wing is set at a right angle to the left.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with three windows. A thatched porch hood shelters the approximately central front door. A glazed 20th-century door with diamond panes leads to the Post Office on the left, and a tall 4-light 20th-century window with diamond panes is positioned to the right of the Post Office door. Below the Post Office window is a Gothic "D," representing the Drewe family name, who owned the Broadhembury Estate. The ground floor features two 3-light 19th or 20th-century timber casements with glazing bars, and the first floor has three 2-light 19th or 20th-century casements, two of which have square leaded panes.

Inside, the centre room (partially divided by the passage) boasts a fine ceiling of moulded intersecting beams. The right-hand room retains a stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. A partition dividing the right-hand room from the centre room is constructed of timber studs. A winder timber stair is located in the rear projection. The roof is said to be entirely boxed in and was not inspected.

The house is part of a group of properties in a picturesque and unspoiled estate village.