The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House. 6 related planning applications.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
sacred-nave-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
The Post Office, 115, Lambourne Road, Chigwell, IG7 6EN
OS grid reference
TQ 466 934
Coordinates
51.62108, 0.11696
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of four bays aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with the main aspect facing southeast. There is an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the northeast end and an external chimney stack at the southwest end. At the rear, there are extensions from the 19th century.

At the northeast end, there is a long single-storey extension that reaches to the road, serving as the shop and Post Office. This extension is clad with weatherboards and has a low-pitched slate roof. The building is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is a central semi-octagonal glazed porch from the 20th century, with one 20th-century casement window to the southwest of it, while the rest of the ground floor is covered by the shop extension. The first floor features three 20th-century casement windows. A band of convex moulded plaster runs below the eaves along the entire length of the front.

Local climate

The Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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