The Post Office

The Post Office is a village store and post office that features white-painted roughcast walls and red-tiled roofs, which were renewed in 2001. It has a rectangular plan and is a single storey with an attic. The building is notable for its distinctive hipped roof, which has two pitches on all four sides. The main roof is steep and covered with small plain tiles, while the lower roof flares out at a low pitch with large Roman tiles. A tall roughcast chimney is located on the west roof slope, and there was previously a pair of chimneys on the east slope.

There are two steep hipped dormers, each with a pair of casement windows on the sides, along with a double dormer at the front featuring a four-light casement and a single dormer at the south rear. The north front wall is set back, with the roof extending on raking struts. The corners of the building are further rebated, with two struts raking from a corbel at the corner and another from the front wall on either side of the entry. The entry is a broad lunette shape with large impost capitals set low. Originally, it had small-paned glazing and a cambered-headed half-glazed door at the center, although some of the glazing has been replaced with plate glass.

On the east return wall to the right, there is a sash window with a glazed upper sash and a lower half that has a letterbox. The north-facing wall of the rebate features a narrow small-paned light, while the rebate to the left has an arched door facing north. The west side has two doors with overlights, a narrow six-pane window in between, and another shorter window to the left. The east side includes a casement window on the left, followed by a door with a window, a twelve-pane window, another casement, another door with a window, and finally another door. The rear wall has one door.

Attached to the northeast corner is a whitewashed rubble stone wall with an arched entry leading to a side passage to the village club. This wall curves around and continues uphill to connect with a wall that leads to the former abbot's garden, which includes one arched doorway providing access to the gardens.

The post-office section at the north end has boarded walls and a flat ceiling, while the village club room at the south end, which was not inspected, is said to have an arched plaster ceiling.