Old Wall House Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1967. Post office/store. 1 related planning application.
Old Wall House Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- vacant-bailey-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1967
- Type
- Post office/store
- Address
- Old Wall House Post Office Stores, 46, the Street, Manuden, CM23 1DJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 490 267
- Coordinates
- 51.91921, 0.16595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Wall House Post Office Stores is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on the north side of The Street in Manuden. The building features a parapet front and stands two storeys high, with the upper storey jettied across the entire front. It has five windows, which are double-hung sashes with single vertical glazing bars. The ground storey includes a 19th century shop front with two bay windows and a central doorway. The roofs are tiled. At the west end, there is a small 18th century addition that is weather-boarded and has a hipped roof. The building also has one dormer window on the front and another on the north end.
Local climate
Old Wall House Post Office Stores sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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