Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Post office, cottage.

Post Office

WRENN ID
seventh-oriel-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Post office, cottage
Address
Post Office, London Road, Stapleford Tawney
OS grid reference
TQ 504 975
Coordinates
51.65652, 0.17292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office at Passingford Bridge is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th or 18th century, with 19th century and later additions and alterations. A post office was operated by a receiver at this location in 1739, and by 1813 it was part of the daily route between Epping and Ongar. The building is timber framed and weather-boarded, topped with a grey slate roof. It has one storey and attics.

The structure includes a house with a crosswing on the left side, which features a red brick outshot and a red brick chimney. There is a boarded door on the ground floor and a boarded loft door. The main range has two gabled dormers and a 19th century three-light small paned casement window to the left. A gabled wing extends forward from the central dormers, with an outshot to the left rear and a trellised walkway on the right. There are two doors: one boarded door leading to the gabled building and one half-glazed door to the main range. The front of the central range is plastered and has a 19th century small paned casement window in the attic, along with double boarded doors that have protective bars. The main range is topped with two Gault brick chimney stacks.

Local climate

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 lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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