Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Post office, cottage.

Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage

WRENN ID
white-lime-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
Post office, cottage
Address
Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage, Middle Lane, Aldford and Saighton
OS grid reference
SJ 418 593
Coordinates
53.12844, -2.87016
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church View Post Office and the attached cottage, located on School Lane, were likely built around 1870 for the 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster, possibly designed by John Douglas. This building features a simplified Jacobean style, constructed from brown brick with blue diapering on the upper storey. The roof is covered with red tiles and has a gabled shape, featuring a central chimney on the ridge and a plain corner chimney. The windows are small-pane iron casements set in doubly bevelled stone surrounds with bevelled mullions. The post office window consists of eight lights and includes a transom. There are two half-dormers with raking roofs. The building has one and a half storeys, with the upper section slightly projecting and supported by a dentilled brick string. The interiors have not been inspected. This structure is listed for its group value.

Local climate

Church View Post Office and Attached Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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