Home Close

At Home Close on the High Street (once the Post Office and for a time Shirley House), a half storey and a south-west wing were added to the mid-17th-century thatched cottage, possibly after 1847 when James Roxbee bought the house.  Around 1865, an  urban-looking terrace of gabled stone houses, Victoria Cottages, was attached to Home Close, then the Post Office, by the Ford family, who were builders living there.

Home Close served as the post office untill the 1930s, and mail was routinely taken by handcart from there to the railway station. So busy did the office become processing mail for troops between 1914 and 1918 that a single-storey brick extension was built and an additional pillar box provided.