The Post Office and the Thorn Hotel, with Right Return to the Green is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1952. Post office and hotel. 11 related planning applications.
The Post Office and the Thorn Hotel, with Right Return to the Green
- WRENN ID
- nether-niche-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1952
- Type
- Post office and hotel
- Address
- The Post Office and the Thorn Hotel, with Right Return to the Green, High Street, Mistley, CO11 1HE
- OS grid reference
- TM 117 318
- Coordinates
- 51.94475, 1.07881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and The Thorn Hotel, with a right return to The Green, is an 18th-century building originally constructed for Richard Rigby. It features a painted brick facade and a red plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right. The structure has an H plan and consists of two storeys, attics, and cellars. There are three flat-headed dormers and a parapet with a dentilled band underneath. The building has end pilasters and a central band. On the first floor, there are six vertically sliding sash windows, some of which have small panes. To the left of the chimney stack, there is a vertical panel. The ground floor includes a 20th-century shop window and door for the Post Office on the left, a central carriage entrance now fitted with 20th-century doors, and two fixed small paned windows to the right with a part glazed door between them.
Local climate
The Post Office and the Thorn Hotel, with Right Return to the Green receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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