The Old Post Office

The Old Post Office is a house that was formerly two cottages, with the left side once serving as a post office and shop. It dates from the 17th century and has been altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble and features a half-hipped concrete tiled roof. There is a front lateral stack made of stone rubble with a brick shaft.

The original layout has been obscured by later changes, but it likely consisted of a two-room cottage on the right with a small lower end and a hall, heated by the lateral stack, and a winder staircase in an outshut at the rear of the hall. The single-room cottage on the left, which was formerly the post office, has a blocked staircase at the rear between the front room and a gable-ended service wing, creating an overall L-shaped plan. The partition wall between the two cottages has been removed, resulting in a larger room that combines the single-room cottage and the lower end of the right-hand cottage.

The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with 20th-century fenestration. There is a porch at the right end with a gabled slate roof, and above it, a 19th-century two-light casement window with four panes per light. Inside, there is a wide chamfered cross beam with hollow step stops in the lower end of the right-hand cottage. The remaining ground floor beams and the fireplace lintel are boxed in or plastered over. There are 17th-century stop-chamfered doorways at the heads of each staircase and a chamfered beam in the rear wing. Access to the roof space is available only over the hall of the right end cottage, which features a single truss with a steeply cranked, typical 17th-century lap-jointed collar and two tiers of threaded purlins. The feet of the single truss visible in the rear wing have short curved feet.