Post Office Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Shop.
Post Office Shop
- WRENN ID
- small-balcony-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Post Office Shop, 79, the Street, Little Waltham, CM3 3NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 707 129
- Coordinates
- 51.78888, 0.47466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office Shop, located at Nos 79 and 81 on The Street in Little Waltham, is a 18th century timber-framed and plastered house, with weatherboarding on the ground floor at the south end. It has two storeys and features a three-window range with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. Number 79 has a small 20th-century shop front, while Number 81 has a six-panel door topped with a small hood supported by shaped brackets. The roof is tiled and has a coved eaves cornice, with nipped ends at the north and south. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 77 to 83 (odd), Nos 84 to 94 (even), and The Congregational Church.
Local climate
Post Office Shop 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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