House Adjoining Post Office Stores to Right Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House, shop.
House Adjoining Post Office Stores to Right Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- other-brick-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House, shop
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 294
- Coordinates
- 51.93528, 0.5932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a house and shop, located adjacent to the Post Office Stores, and dates from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has plastered walls, topped with red plain tiled roofs. Two red brick chimney stacks are visible from the road, with the one on the right featuring square attached shafts.
The building has a complex plan, with a front range that includes gabled two-storey crosswings projecting forward of the central block, which has a flat-headed dormer. The roofs of the crosswings extend to the center, creating a single-storey flat roof between them. The ground floor features four 20th-century shop windows, while the right crosswing has a three-light 20th-century casement window.
Set back to the right of this range is a two-storey and attic gabled section, which has one window range of vertically sliding sash windows and a vertically boarded door to the right. There are also wings at the rear of the building.
Local climate
House Adjoining Post Office Stores to Right Post Office Stores sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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