The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
stony-courtyard-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House, shop
Address
The Post Office, High Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4SP
OS grid reference
TL 674 305
Coordinates
51.94785, 0.43563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office is a building that combines two houses, dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, which were altered in the late 19th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house on the left has three bays facing southeast, while the house on the right has four bays, with an axial stack located at the junction of the two. An early 20th-century flat-roofed shop extends forward from the middle, taking up more than half of the street elevation. The left house has two storeys with attics, and the right house has two storeys. On the ground floor, there are double doors leading to a garage in the left bay of the left house, shop windows, and a late 19th-century splayed bay window. The first floor features seven late 19th-century sash windows, each with four lights. Additionally, there are three late 19th-century casement windows in gabled dormers on the gambrel roof of the left house. The shop has glazed doors, and there is a six-panel door with the top panels glazed.

Local climate

The 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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