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The frontage has since been restored, and the premises is used by a furniture maker, Ben Lilley, with art displays in the shop window. The building was once twice this size, but the Eastern half burned down in the 1930s. A dedicated Post Office was opened next door in 1953, and an earlier Post Office existed across the road (existed in 1891, trying to find establishment and closure dates). user:dramatic