Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Shop, house. 1 related planning application.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- tall-spindle-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Post Office, St James Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 355
- Coordinates
- 51.98961, 0.59884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Post Office, originally a house and Post Office, located on St. James Street in Castle Hedingham. It dates back to the 17th century or earlier, with 18th century and later additions and alterations. The structure is timber framed and plastered, featuring batten decoration on the first floor, along with rose and leaf paterae and cruciform pargetted bands. It has a red tiled roof that is hipped towards the road, supported by two red brick chimney stacks, one of which has attached square shafts. The building includes a moulded eaves cornice and stands three storeys tall with cellars. The façade has a two-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. The bay shop window has a flat leaded roof with a moulded cornice, and there is a small paned glazed door with three lights above it. Access is provided by three steps, accompanied by an iron post and handrail.
Local climate
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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