Sundon Post Office and General Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Post office, general store.
Sundon Post Office and General Stores
- WRENN ID
- keen-tallow-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Post office, general store
- Address
- Sundon Post Office and General Stores, Harlington Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 046 278
- Coordinates
- 51.93966, -0.47965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sundon Post Office and General Stores is an early 19th-century building constructed of red and grey chequerwork brick. It stands two storeys tall and features a modern concrete tile roof. The façade includes three sash windows with gauged brick heads. The central first-floor window is notable for its marginal glazing bars and coloured glass panes. The entrance door is set in panelled reveals and is framed by Doric pilasters and a cornice, topped with a rectangular fanlight.
Local climate
Sundon Post Office and General Stores sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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