Post Office And Manor House

The Post Office and Manor House, likely dating from the early 16th century or slightly later, may have originally been associated with the nearby almshouse or church house. It underwent alterations in the early 20th century. The building features roughly coursed slate stone walls and a gable-ended slate roof adorned with Victorian decorative ridge tiles, along with a brick stack at the left gable end.

The structure is two storeys high with a regular two-window front and a wide central through-passageway. At the rear of this passageway is an original but somewhat decayed wooden round-arched doorway. The first floor has late 19th or early 20th century tripartite 8-pane sash windows, while a contemporary bay window is located below to the left, with a narrow panel door inserted to its right. The opposite side of the passageway features a late 19th or early 20th century shopfront. A hollow chamfered stringcourse runs across the front wall just below the eaves, and the rear wall has a chamfered stone eaves cornice that extends around the stair projection to the right of the passageway, which includes a window with a moulded wooden lintel. There is also an early 20th century addition in front of this part of the house.

Inside, there is a chamfered unstopped axial beam in the left-hand roof, and the roof timbers have likely been renewed, probably in the 19th century, and are very rough.