The Post Office And Post Office House Including Outbuilding Adjoining At West

This is a house, with a rear wing used as a post office, dating to around the early 18th century, and possibly incorporating earlier fabric. The construction is flint rubble, rendered under the eaves, with a thatched roof featuring a plain ridge and hipped ends. Brick chimney shafts are present, one axial in the main range and another at the junction between the main range and the wing. The house is arranged as an L-shaped plan. The main, south-facing range is single depth, with a central entrance leading to a passage near a chimney breast that heats the kitchen. To the right of the entrance is a parlour heated by a rear lateral stack, with the principal staircase rising adjacent to that stack within the wing. The left-hand end of the house is divided between a service room and a service stair. The rear right wing is at a right angle to the parlour and has been adapted for use as the post office on the ground floor. Interior features are primarily from the early 18th century, except for a single two-light mullioned window which may be older. A single-story brick outbuilding with a thatched roof, probably dating to the 19th century, is located at the left end of the house. A single-story brick lean-to is attached at the rear. The front of the house, with four windows arranged asymmetrically, has regular fenestration. A probably 19th or 20th-century front door is centrally positioned, flanked by transomed windows. The right return, facing the road, features a probably 20th-century plank front door to the post office, along with various 19th or 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A two-light timber mullioned window is present on the first floor to the left, and a blocked window to the first floor left. Another two-light timber mullioned window with ovolo-moulded mullions is situated on the first floor rear. Interior details include early 18th-century two-panel doors, a kitchen door with fielded panels, an 18th-century china cupboard in the parlour with shaped shelves, and boxed-in crossbeams in the wing and kitchen. Original 18th-century main and service stairs feature, the main stair with a flat ramped handrail and turned balusters on the first floor. The first-floor rooms are plastered up to the collar level of the trusses and do not appear to have ever had flat ceilings. The house is situated within a conservation area.