Post Office And Trots Cottage

The Post Office and Trots Cottage is a building that serves as both a post office and a house, dating from the 17th century with early 19th-century alterations and further modifications in the late 20th century. It is constructed from coursed, squared stone, with the right wing brought to courses, and features a stone slate roof, with an artificial stone slate slope on the right return. The building has a 'U' plan that opens to the road and consists of three windows across the center, being one room deep, with the right wing extended at the rear, and stands at one and a half storeys.

The facade facing the road has a plain gable on the left side at ground level, which includes a late 20th-century window that was originally a doorway. To the right, there is a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould, a boarded door with a slight Tudor arch beneath a deep stone lintel, and a single-light window with a stone lintel. There are two two-light casements on either side of the stone mullion, which originally featured a four-light mullion with a king mullion but was altered by 1900. The left return of the right wing also has a hoodmould over a window, and there is a half-glazed door at the front with a concrete lintel and hoodmould, alongside a small-pane shop window to the right with a fascia.

On the first floor, there is a two-light casement with small panes and a timber lintel on the left wing, and the wall rises to two stone dormers, each featuring a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould. The parapet gable has cross-gablet apices. In the gable of the right wing, there are two two-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. The building has a chimney on the ridge of the left wing with a square base and a diamond-set stack above, a plain chimney on the ridge center of the main wing, and a plain chimney with a moulded cap at the rear of the right wing.

Internally, there is an exposed beam across the shop, which was formerly the head of a partition, and exposed old joists over the front section trimmed before the gable wall. In 1904, the door leading to what is now the shop was boarded and features a cambered arch with stone voussoirs. The building forms a group with Hill Farmhouse.