Laburnam Middle Cottage Old Post Office Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1960. Residential.
Laburnam Middle Cottage Old Post Office Post Office
- WRENN ID
- slow-gable-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- Thurrock MP: Jen Craft (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1960
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Laburnam Middle Cottage Old Post Office Post Office, High Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 601 802
- Coordinates
- 51.49818, 0.30543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnam, Middle Cottage, and Old Post Cottage is a 16th century house located on the north side of High Road in Stifford. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. It is two stories tall and has an H-plan layout, featuring gabled and jettied crosswings. The west wing includes two 18th century double hung vertical sliding sash windows, while the other windows are early 19th century cast iron casements with small panes. The entrance features an 18th century door with a hood supported by shaped brackets.
Local climate
Laburnam Middle Cottage Old Post Office Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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