Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House, post office. 4 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- muted-landing-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Post Office, 18 and 20, Watling Street, Thaxted, CM6 2PE
- OS grid reference
- TL 610 310
- Coordinates
- 51.95465, 0.3428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 15th or early 16th century house, originally timber-framed and now plastered, with a half-hipped roof covered in red plain tiles. It is two storeys high and has a five-window front, featuring double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The house has red brick chimney stacks, and two modern bow windows have been added. Internally, the original timber frame remains, including an original window with two cusped trefoils.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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