Old Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Post House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-gravel-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post House, Chelmsford Road, Felsted, CM6 3DH
- OS grid reference
- TL 677 203
- Coordinates
- 51.85613, 0.43379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post House is a house dating to the 17th century or earlier. It is two storeys high with a red plain tiled roof. The building has a timber frame, with some parts plastered and others weatherboarded. The front has a three-window range of small-paned casement windows and sliding sash windows, alongside a 19th-century shop window. The entrance is marked by a four-panel door with two glazed lights, moulded pilasters, and a frieze topped with a pediment supported by brackets. The property features two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Old Post 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- 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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