The Old Post Office and Holland Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office and Holland Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-pavement-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office and Holland Cottage, Clunbury, SY7 0HG
- OS grid reference
- SO 370 805
- Coordinates
- 52.41963, -2.9269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now divided into two separate dwellings, dating to the mid-17th century with subsequent additions and alterations. The house is timber-framed with rendered infill panels set on a rendered rubblestone plinth, and has a slate roof with decorative cresting, carved bargeboards, and shaped finials. The original layout likely comprised three framed bays, with a smaller end bay added in the late 17th century.
The house is one storey and has an attic. The timber framing is visible as square panels, extending from the cill to the wall plate, with a straight tension brace to the front left corner. Windows are primarily 19th-century casements, including canted bays to the far left and immediately to the right of the central four-panel door (the top panels of which are now glazed). The gable to the left of the centre has a three-light casement window on each floor, and another three-light casement is located on the far right. There are three late 19th-century gabled dormers in the lower part of the roof slope, one to the left and two to the right of the gable, the furthest to the right featuring a leaded casement window. An internal red brick end stack is present on the left, with a toothed capping. Painted rubblestone cladding covers the right gable end, exposing the original roof rafters.
The interior of the right-hand cottage (Holland Cottage) was inspected, revealing an original end wall with square panels and a collar and tie-beam truss, showing that the end bay is an addition.
Local climate
The Old Post Office and Holland Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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