Bus Shelter About 10 Yards East of Overbury Post Office and Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. A C19 Bus shelter.
Bus Shelter About 10 Yards East of Overbury Post Office and Stores
- WRENN ID
- grey-threshold-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Bus shelter
- OS grid reference
- SO 958 373
- Coordinates
- 52.03409, -2.06261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bus shelter, located about 10 yards east of the Overbury Post Office and Stores, was built between 1878 and 1879 by Ernest Newton for Robert Martin. It originally served as a roadside fountain and is constructed from limestone ashlar with a timber frame. The roof is half-hipped and covered with stone tiles laid in diminishing courses, featuring overhanging eaves.
The shelter has a tall chamfered ashlar base that is open at the north front. The west and east side elevations have stepped north returns about three feet long, topped with moulded capping. The sides and rear are framed with panels that include closely-set diamond mullions. Inside, there is a chamfered arch-braced longitudinal main roof beam that supports eight collar trusses, each with two struts.
At the center of the rear wall, there is a semi-circular stone projection, which may have been a trough, that supports a timber seat. In the middle of the seat is a slightly tapered semi-cylindrical container, possibly hiding the former fountain head. Timber benches are attached to the side walls. The bus shelter is prominently positioned on the main road through the village, adjacent to the former Post Office and Stores and properties numbered 45 and 47.
Local climate
Bus Shelter About 10 Yards East of Overbury Post Office and Stores receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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