Post Office Village Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office Village Stores
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cloister-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Post Office Village Stores, Church Lane, Berkswell, CV7 7BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 244 791
- Coordinates
- 52.40948, -1.6413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office Village Stores is an 18th-century building located on the north side of Church Lane in Berkswell. It is constructed of colour-washed brick and features an old tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high and has three nearly flush casement windows with glazing bars, each topped with slightly cambered arches. On the ground floor, there is a double segmental bowed shop window on the left and a boarded door positioned to the right of centre. The Village Stores is part of a group that includes a cottage to the east, a house to the west, a house next to the Village School, and the Village School itself.
Local climate
Post Office Village Stores receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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