The Old Post Office And The Post Box

The Old Post Office and The Post Box are a pair of cottages, likely originating as a single farmhouse. The core of the building probably dates to the late 16th or 17th century, with a rear wing to The Old Post Office possibly added later, and a 20th-century addition behind The Post Box. The main range is constructed of lightly rendered stone, and the front wall lacks a visible division between the two cottages. The roof is slate and thatched. Originally, the building may have followed a 3-room and through-passage plan; the left-hand section, including the passage and lower room, is now The Old Post Office, while the right-hand section, containing the hall and inner room or parlour, is The Post Box.

The Old Post Office is two storeys high, with noticeably higher eaves at The Post Box. Rear projections are single-storeyed. The Old Post Office has a slated roof, flipped at the left-hand end, to the main range, and a corrugated-iron roof to its rear wing. A late 19th or early 20th century lean-to porch sits at the right of the front wall. To the left of the porch is a projecting stone stack, featuring set-offs and a tapered top, with a later brick shaft built onto one side. The fenestration is irregular, with 20th-century wood casements. There are two ground-floor windows to the left of the stack, one second-storey window above the doorway, and another at the far left-hand end. A panel of slate-hanging is above the window to the left of the stack. A small brick stack rises from the left-hand gable-well. Internally, the ground-floor room has very roughly chamfered ceiling beams, and a main fireplace with a segmental brick arch of headers. The roof has been mostly reconstructed, but a surviving principal rafter retains a threaded purlin and halved collar with shaped ends.

The Post Box has a thatched roof, with a chimney stack in each gable. A heavy stone stack, backing onto the through-passage internally, is located to the left, with an added shaft on top; a brick stack of the 19th century or later is situated to the right. The front has two wide windows. The ground-floor windows have been enlarged in the 20th century, with small-paned glazing, while the second-storey windows have 20th-century casements to the left and 19th-century casements to the right. A rectangular projection, likely an oven, is situated at the left-hand side of the ground storey. Internally, the former hall has chamfered ceiling beams, and the fireplace features a chamfered wood lintel with straight-cut stops. The roof was not inspected, but the trusses have plain feet, now cased.