The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 1 related planning application.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sunken-parapet-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Post Office, the Street, Pebmarsh, CO9 2NH
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 334
- Coordinates
- 51.96889, 0.69634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions made in the 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of five bays aligned north to south, with the entrance located at the south. Originally, it served as the service end crosswing of The Manor House, but it was later partitioned off and extended at both the front and back. There is one internal stack at the rear end. The shop front features two splayed bays with a half-glazed door in between. On the first floor, there is a splayed oriel window with three 20th-century casements. The eaves are coved on both side walls. Inside, the building has chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists that are plastered to the soffits, and primary straight bracing in the walls.
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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- 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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