Post Office And Adjoining House

The Post Office and adjoining house, originally a barn, house, and byre, dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in 1804 over the entrance. The building features cement rendered clay walls, with the house walls raised in height using brick, and is topped with Welsh slate roofs and brick chimney stacks.

The Post Office is a single-storey structure with three bays, previously serving as a barn, while the adjoining house is two-storey with two bays and has a former single-storey byre to the right. The front includes a 20th-century shop door set in a plain painted stone surround, featuring a dated lintel with a weathered inscription, along with two 20th-century shop windows to the left. There is also a plank door in a plain stone surround to the left.

The rear wall has a large cart entrance, and the clay walls have been extensively repaired with brick. Inside, there are three pairs of upper crucks. The house was originally single-storey, and remnants of the clay wall can still be seen as an internal wall. The windows are two-pane sash style, and there is a 20th-century window and plank door in the former byre, which contains one pair of upper crucks. The house would have originally been constructed using cruck framing before its alterations. The building is listed with Solway View for group value context.