The Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Cottage.

The Post House

WRENN ID
hollow-rubble-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
The Post House, Faulkbourne
OS grid reference
TL 796 171
Coordinates
51.82453, 0.60495
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post House is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing southeast and features an axial stack at the left end. There is a 19th-century one-bay extension to the left and a single-storey extension to the right. The cottage is two storeys high.

On the southeast elevation, there are three 20th-century casements and one small 19th-century casement on the ground floor, along with two 20th-century casements on the first floor. There are also two half-glazed doors. The southwest gable end, which faces the road, has one 19th-century horizontal sash window with sixteen lights on the first floor and no window on the ground floor.

Inside, the right ground floor room features a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section. The left ground floor room has a chamfered transverse beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section, both also with lamb's tongue stops. There is a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right, which has been much altered in the 20th century. The building shows primary straight bracing.

The Post House was formerly the Post Office.

Local climate

The Post House 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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