Post Office and Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A Early C19 Post Office. 1 related planning application.
Post Office and Stores
- WRENN ID
- watchful-step-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Post Office
- Address
- Post Office and Stores, High Street, Widdington, CB11 3SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 316
- Coordinates
- 51.96207, 0.23758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century timber-framed and plastered building, originally a post office and stores. It is two storeys high and has two windows across the front. The upper floor has double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor features an early 19th century shop window with glazing bars. A central doorway is topped with a moulded architrave and cornice. The roof is slate and hipped.
Local climate
Post Office and 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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