House attached to Post Office, including forecourt walls & railings

House attached to Post Office, including forecourt walls and railings

The shop is a two-storey building with a cellar, constructed in red brick with a slate roof. It features an iron crested Gothic ridge, a projecting brick stack to the side wall and a brick corner stack to the rear left. The building is notable for its unusually decorative bargeboards in a repeated "S" pattern with button ornament, a tall moulded finial and pendant. A square dressed date stone with a date shield set in a quatrefoil recess is inscribed "HP 1868".

The shop front is symmetrical, with a moulded cornice and fascia displaying a saw-tooth band over three-light windows. The central entrance is splayed, and the fascia-end scroll brackets are decorated with a tied fruit festoon. The mullions are lamb's tongue moulded timber, with moulded timber cill (renewed in 1990) and a dressed stone stall riser. A plain overlight sits above glazed double doors with a stone step, the right-hand side heavily worn. Large-paned sash windows throughout have dressed stone heads and cills; the front gable sash incorporates side lights. A George V wall letter-box is set in a brick pier attached to the left front.

The attached house is two storeys high, built in red brick on a plinth. It forms an L-shaped block with slate roofs and iron crested Gothic ridges. There is a central ridge stack and stacks to the rear of the house and to the rear gable end of the wing, all brick with oversailing and dentil courses and decorative cream clay pots. Ornate pierced quatrefoil bargeboards with moulded finials and pendants adorn the gable ends, with a small gable over the central window. Moulded iron guttering with lion-head decoration runs throughout. The front elevation is symmetrical with three large-paned sash windows with dressed stone heads and cills.

The doorcase features timber columns and a moulded cornice, with a four-panelled door and plain overlight. The north-west gable end displays a square dressed stone inset with a carved shield and four irregular sash windows; the bottom left sash has side lights, and two small sashes to the right feature margin glazing. The rear wing has a splayed corner to the roadside, which continues as a brick roadside wall with distinctive battlements and dressed copings.

The forecourt features intersecting cast-iron railings formed of round arches between main uprights with ball finials, set on low brick forecourt walls with dressed stone copings. A central gate contains a very ornate pierced foliage panel, with a similar smaller gate to the left side.

Outbuildings include a two-storey red brick block attached to the rear gable end of the shop, with a slate roof, dentil eaves, a plank door to the right of centre and a tall plank loft door above. This building formerly housed a corn merchant and feed suppliers; the sack hoist survives in situ. A detached two-storey red brick block with a slate roof and central gable served as a coach house and stables, with veterinary suppliers occupying two rooms on the first floor equipped with fitted shelves and counters. The building has plank doors, shuttered windows and a slit ventilator to the stable. To the rear of the house, a two-storey red brick outhouse with a slate roof contains a surviving bread oven, hot water copper and carved stone sink.

The shop interior is open plan with opposing counters. Original 1868 shop fittings survive, including shelves, drawers for herbal products and remedies, open shelving partitioned with turned spindle supports, and counters with panelled fronts divided by pilaster strips. The counter to the right incorporates an inset brass measure with a yardstick retained in its original fitted holder. A window to the centre right provides a view through to the house; to the rear is a Gothic-arched plank door with steps up to the first floor featuring a turned newel. To the rear left is a plank and glazed office partition. Rows of iron rods for hangings are suspended from the ceiling. The side windows have moulded architraving and panelled shutters. A moulded ceiling cornice runs throughout. Cast-iron columns stand at the corners of the front window splay. A 1914 wooden telephone kiosk is located within the shop.

The general stores incorporated departments for drapery, haberdashery, medicinal products, household goods and groceries on the ground floor. The first floor housed an undertaker's showroom selling coffin linings, shrouds and related items, with a separate room for customer consultations.