Post Office

This is a two-storey, three-window post office block, likely dating from the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings to the front elevation, while the return elevations are rendered with brick dressings. It has a hipped tiled roof. The main front elevation is near-symmetrical, featuring three principal bays with canted angles, each topped with a distinctive oriel window set beneath the eaves. The principal bays have timber-framed gables. The central gable projects slightly to create an oriel window above the entrance, supported by brackets. The gables display pointed quatrefoils within lozenges, billeted bressumers, and moulded bargeboards. A moulded brick string course runs along the base and first floor. The central stone doorway is topped with a shallow basket arch, with a two-pane overlight featuring arched heads. To the right of the entrance is a three-light transomed window, and to the left, a pair of single lights, all with brick relieving arches; modern fascias reading 'Post Office' are attached to these arches. Each canted angle contains a single light. The upper storey has cross-windows projecting through the eaves, with a large, stepped four-light casement window in the central timber-framed oriel, featuring panelling with pierced quatrefoil decoration. The canted angles have square wooden oriel windows, immediately under the eaves, supported by cusped arched brackets and with pendant finials; these windows have two panes above transoms and are plain-glazed below.

The side and rear elevations are rendered and whitewashed. The plinth extends to a basement storey on the west side, where the ground slopes downwards. Detail includes brick quoins and brick and sandstone string courses between storeys, brick reveals, and sandstone lintels to mullioned and transomed wooden windows. The west side has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows, with tall two- and three-light windows and single lights on the ground floor. The first floor has a shallow three-light window and an irregular four-light window, while the basement has three openings boarded over. The east side is brick to the lower storey and rendered above. Originally, three stone cross-windows were present on the ground floor; the central one has lost part of its mullion, and the one on the right has been converted into a doorway. A single-storey bay with parapets, containing a widened doorway, is located on the right. The upper storey has three single segmental-headed lights set in a red brick panel near the eaves. The rear of the building faces a graveyard and has a two-gable design, with the left gable set back behind a single-storey, flat-roofed bay. Two brick stacks are visible towards the rear: a corner stack on the left of the right-hand gable end and a ridge stack near the left gable end. The rear elevation features wooden cross-windows under segmental brick heads. The right-hand gable end has one window to the ground floor and two to the first, with a similar window to the left of the flat-roofed bay. The interior of the building was not inspected.