Cottage and Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Shop, cottage.
Cottage and Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- patient-spindle-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Shop, cottage
- Address
- Cottage and Post Office Stores, 2, the Street, White Notley
- OS grid reference
- TL 785 183
- Coordinates
- 51.83555, 0.5906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cottage and post office stores, dating from the 17th or 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame with plaster and features a red plain tiled gambrel roof that includes three catslide dormers. There are two red brick chimney stacks at the rear. The structure is one storey high with attics. On the left side, there is a small paned casement window, while the central area has a 19th-century small paned shop bay window and a 20th-century casement window on the right. To the left of the bay window, there is a vertically boarded door with a light.
Local climate
Cottage and Post Office Stores 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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