Saling Stores and Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House, shop.
Saling Stores and Post Office
- WRENN ID
- standing-terrace-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Saling Stores and Post Office, the Street, the Salings
- OS grid reference
- TL 701 255
- Coordinates
- 51.90283, 0.47183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saling Stores and Post Office is a house and shop located in Great Saling. The rear section dates back to the 17th century, with later additions. The building features a timber frame and is covered in panel parget plaster. The main range on the right has a hipped red tiled roof, while there is a gabled wing to the left and a rear wing. A red brick chimney stack is situated on the left side. The building is two storeys high and has two 18th-century small paned vertically sliding sash windows on the first floor of the main range, along with two similar windows on the left side of the ground floor. To the right, there is a 19th-century bay shop window with a recessed glazed door. On the left, there is a flat-headed enclosed porch leading to a four-panelled door with two lights in a moulded surround.
Local climate
Saling Stores and Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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