Caryes

Caryes is a house that was formerly a Post Office and may have originally been two cottages. It dates from the 17th century and was modernised and enlarged around 1970. The original part is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with brick stacks—one disused and the other featuring a 19th-century chimney pot. The roof, which was originally thatch, is now covered with interlocking tiles.

The building has a three-room plan and faces southeast. The left room, which is an extension from around 1970, projects slightly forward. The original two rooms had end stacks, and the left stack was turned around in the 1970s to serve the extension. There are secondary outshots at the rear, and the house is two storeys tall.

The front of the original section has a nearly symmetrical arrangement of three windows, featuring iron-framed casements from around 1970 that do not have glazing bars, along with a timber-framed casement added around 1982 on the ground floor to the right. A central 20th-century front door is located behind a 20th-century gabled porch with a tiled roof. The ground floor of the extension also projects forward and includes two additional windows from around 1970, with the roof extending over this section.

Inside, the two original rooms are separated by a timber-framed crosswall that is nogged with brick. The right room has a crossbeam with a soffit that is stop-chamfered. Both fireplaces in the original section are blocked. The roof features side-pegged jointed cruck trusses on either side of the crosswall.