The Post Office

The Post Office is likely a former pair of cottages that has been converted into a house with a shop and post office. It probably dates from the 17th century and was remodeled and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble and cob, rendered and colorwashed, with a straw-thatched roof featuring gable ends and brick stacks.

The plan consists of three rooms, with the middle room containing an axial stack that backs onto the left room. There is no indication of a through-passage, and the right room is narrower with a rear corner stack, suggesting that this end of the house may have been rebuilt.

The exterior is single-storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows: two on the ground floor and two on the first floor. The first floor features three windows with 18th-century leaded lights, and there is a similar casement window to the left of the ground floor. A 19th-century gabled dormer is located to the right of the first floor, and there is a large 8-pane 19th-century shop window on the ground floor. The building has two door openings with plank doors, one leading into the shop on the right and the other into the house on the left.

Inside, the right room has two chamfered lateral ceiling beams with step-stops, a corner fireplace with a chamfered beam, an oven, and an iron door. The center room features chamfered ceiling beams, while the room on the left has ceiling beams with thin chamfers. The roof was not visible, but the feet of the principal rafters suggest that it may have been rebuilt. The shop has a brick floor.