Cross Stores Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Terrace of cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Cross Stores Post Office
- WRENN ID
- stranded-basalt-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- Cross Stores Post Office, 11, High Road, Layer-De-La-Haye, CO2 0DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 967 200
- Coordinates
- 51.84461, 0.85493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Stores Post Office is a late 18th century terrace of four cottages. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high and features a five-window range with modern casements. There are modern porches added to the front, and two original chimney stacks remain intact. At the east end, there is a shop front.
Local climate
Cross Stores 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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