Post Office Stores and Adjoining House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1983. House, post office, store.
Post Office Stores and Adjoining House
- WRENN ID
- grim-joist-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1983
- Type
- House, post office, store
- OS grid reference
- TL 500 175
- Coordinates
- 51.83662, 0.17632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office Stores and adjoining house is a building that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It has two storeys and features a half-hipped slate slab roof. The structure is timber framed and plastered. On the first floor, there is an early 19th-century four-range small paned sash window. To the left, there is a 20th-century shopfront, while to the right, there is a 19th-century bay window with sashes, along with a porch and door. Inside the store, there is a 19th-century support column with a moulded capital. The building also has a central red brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Post Office Stores and Adjoining House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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