Linsell House Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. House, post office. 2 related planning applications.

Linsell House Post Office

WRENN ID
fossil-lime-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1984
Type
House, post office
Address
Linsell House Post Office, Braintree Road, Felsted, CM6 3DG
OS grid reference
TL 676 203
Coordinates
51.85668, 0.43283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Linsell House and Post Office is a house and post office stores dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. It has two storeys and features a plain red tile double range roof with varying colour striations and zigzags. The building is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. It has a five-window range of 18th-century small paned sash windows.

To the right, there is a plain red tile porch that leads to a 19th or 20th-century shop front with a central door. On the left, three steps lead up to a six-panelled house door, which has a frieze and a flat canopy above, with a plain handrail along the steps. Set back to the left is a red brick extension with a plain red tile roof, featuring one casement window facing Braintree Road, an 18th-century vertical sliding sash window, and a plain board door facing Bury Chase.

At the rear, the left roof line includes a gabled crosswing outshot that rises to two storeys, along with a single-storey outshot area that has a gabled dormer. To the right, there is a two-storey red brick extension with various casement windows. The complex is topped with three red brick chimney stacks. The building holds group value with the nearby church and churchyard, as well as with the village centre.

Local climate

Linsell House Post Office 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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