The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- scarred-tracery-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Post Office, Witham Road, Black Notley
- OS grid reference
- TL 768 204
- Coordinates
- 51.8547, 0.56667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a pair of cottages with an attached Post Office, dating from the 17th to 18th century, with 19th-century single-storey shop and outbuilding extensions on the left. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red plain tiled half hipped gambrel roof and a rear red brick chimney stack. It has two storeys and attics in the main range, with a three-window arrangement of small paned vertically sliding sashes set in moulded surrounds. The doors on the right and left, dating from the 18th to 19th century, are made up of two moulded vertical panels in moulded surrounds, topped with plain pediments. The single-storey extensions on the left are weatherboarded, with various roofs of red tiles or corrugated iron. There are double vertically boarded doors to the left, a small paned central shop window, and a right shop door that matches the cottage doors.
Local climate
The Post Office 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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