Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1983. House.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ancient-cobalt-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochford
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office, High Street, Canewdon
- OS grid reference
- TQ 900 945
- Coordinates
- 51.61758, 0.74392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house located on Canewdon High Street, dating from the 18th to 19th century. It features a timber frame with a red brick facade and weatherboarded returns, topped by a red plain tiled roof and flanked by end red brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and is characterized by a dentilled eaves cornice. It has a three-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes with gauged brick arches above them. The central entrance is a five-panelled door with reveal panels and a dentilled pediment. Inside, there is a straight flight staircase with twisted balusters.
Local climate
Old Post Office receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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