Carlton Post Office and Village Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Post office, shop.
Carlton Post Office and Village Stores
- WRENN ID
- sombre-oriel-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Post office, shop
- Address
- Carlton Post Office and Village Stores, Bridgend, Carlton and Chellington
- OS grid reference
- SP 956 558
- Coordinates
- 52.19257, -0.60199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carlton Post Office and Village Stores is a building that combines two houses into a single unit serving as a house and shop. The northern house has a datestone from 1624 and was altered in the 18th century. It is constructed of colourwashed limestone rubble and features a brick dentil course at the eaves, topped with an old clay tile roof. The building is two storeys high with a two-bay plan. On the east elevation, the first floor has two 3-light casement windows under timber lintels, while the ground floor has one 3-light casement window and a doorway to the right, which has a 20th-century bracketed doorhood.
The southern building bears an inscription on the south gable end reading "I.P.A. 1807." It is made of colourwashed coursed limestone rubble and has a concrete tile roof with tile gable coping. This section also has a two-storey, three-bay plan. The east elevation features three casement windows on the first floor, with the central window being 2-lights and the others 3-light, all under timber lintels. The ground floor has a central doorway with a flat doorhood, a 3-light fixed shop window to the left, and a single light casement and a 3-light casement to the right.
Local climate
Carlton Post Office and Village Stores sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% 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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