Post Office with Postmaster's House and Attached House to Right 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, house. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office with Postmaster's House and Attached House to Right
- WRENN ID
- dusted-wall-cobweb
- 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, house
- Address
- Post Office with Postmaster's House and Attached House to Right, Church Road, Eaton and Eccleston, CH4 9HT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 412 625
- Coordinates
- 53.15676, -2.88041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a Post Office with a Postmaster's House and an attached house to the right, constructed in the 1890s by Douglas and Fordham for the 1st Duke of Westminster. It is made of brown brick with slightly projecting stone dressings, and the brickwork was originally rendered white. The roofs are covered with Westmorland green slate. The structure has two storeys and features seven windows, including two half-octagon, two-storey hipped bays. There is a central stone-coped front gable on the right and four shaped brick chimneys.
On the left side, there is a flat-roofed open porch supported by carved consoles, while the right side has a gabled half-timbered porch on shaped brackets. Sandstone doorsteps lead to the entrances. The windows are Queen Anne timber casements with three lights and leaded glazing, which project from the wall on shaped wooden brackets. The doors are shaped, framed, and boarded, partly glazed with four small panes. The simple back of the building suggests it was an older structure that was reworked by Douglas and Fordham. The interior has not been inspected. Overall, this building is a good example of the Vernacular Revival style.
Local climate
Post Office with Postmaster's House and Attached House to Right receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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