The Post Office

The Post Office is a house and post office that was formerly a shop, likely built in the 17th century. It was refenestrated in the 19th century and underwent internal alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring gable ends. There is a rendered lateral rear stack and a rendered stack at the right gable end.

The layout includes a hall heated by the rear lateral stack, with an inner room to the right that was said to have been an outbuilding until the early 20th century. The shallow projecting cross-wing contains the entrance hall and a straight-run staircase to the right of the shop. The cross-wing was extended at the rear in the late 19th or early 20th century to add a kitchen. A lower two-storey workshop and service range extends from the left side of the cross-wing.

The building is two storeys high and features a four-window range, including the cross-wing. The cross-wing has a two-light casement window with six panes per light above an integral 19th-century shop front and doorcase. The shop window has 28 small panes and is flanked by channelled pilasters, with a moulded fascia that continues to the doorcase on the right, which also has channelled pilasters and an incised Greek key motif decorative overlight. The doors are raised and fielded, with the upper panels glazed. The hall range to the right has three sashes with 20 small panes each, above two larger horned sashes with 20 panes to the left of a 12-paned sash. The inner room end is set at a slight angle.

The interior has been mainly altered in the 20th century, but some 19th-century joinery remains. Access to the roof space is not available, but the building features straight principals throughout, which are more steeply pitched in the cross-wing.