The Post Office With House Immediately West

The Post Office with house immediately west is an 18th-century house and shop, extended in the 19th century. It is constructed of ham stone and squared stone, with rendered brickwork to the extension, and has a double Roman clay tiled roof with high coped gables, indicating a former thatch. There are stone and brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high, with a three-bay house section and a three-bay shop section. The house has 16-pane sash windows with exposed boxes in plain openings, featuring voussoired flat arches. A single-storey angled bay window with 20 panes of glass and a lead flat roof is present in the lower bay. A six-panel door with toplights is situated in a plain opening, protected by a timber hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. The shop section projects under a catslide roof with hipped returns; it has 16-pane sash windows with rounded corners. The 19th-century shopfront features square bay windows of 4 + 8 + 2 panes flanking a part-glazed door in a recessed entrance. A continuous slim fascia runs across the front and returns. The rendered bay 3 has a small casement window above and a pair of timber garage doors below. Internally, the shop has a chamfered ceiling beam. A reported three-room cross passage plan exists, alongside two hollow-chamfer mullioned windows at the rear. Bay 3 of the shop may have been a former throughway. The roof has a collar truss frame.