Coughton Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. House.
Coughton Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sacred-terrace-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coughton Post Office, Birmingham Road, B49 5HR
- OS grid reference
- SP 080 603
- Coordinates
- 52.24108, -1.88408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coughton Post Office, which includes No. 2 Coughton Lane, is a house that now serves as a post office and tea room, along with a separate cottage. It dates from the 17th century, with a front added in the 18th century. The building is timber framed, featuring square framing with brick infill. The front is made of brick, adorned with a brick string course and a brick dentil cornice, while there is a brick range on the right side. The roof is covered with old tiles and has brick stacks. The structure is L-shaped, extended to a T-shape, and has two storeys plus an attic, with a five-window range.
The central shop front, which dates from the late 18th or 19th century, includes a panelled half-glazed door and two bow windows with glazing bars and reeded wood surrounds, topped with a continuous shaped fascia. To the right of the shop front is a six-panelled part-glazed door with a moulded wood surround. The windows and doors are made of wood and iron, featuring glazing bars and are set under cambered brick arches. There are three hipped dormers on the roof. The lower two-storey, two-window range to the right has blocked openings with cambered arches on the ground floor and two three-light leaded casements with crown glass on the first floor.
The left side of the building, facing Coughton Lane, has an external stack. At the rear, the timber framing is exposed, and the timber-framed wing (No. 2 Coughton Lane) has jowled posts. There is a large internal stack with two shafts, one made of thin bricks. The rear features a plank door and a small 20th-century trellis porch, along with 19th and 20th-century casements. Inside, the timber framing is also exposed.
Local climate
Coughton Post Office receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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