Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House, shop.

Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office)

WRENN ID
riven-cellar-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
House, shop
Address
Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office), High Street
OS grid reference
TL 368 271
Coordinates
51.92572, -0.0116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vine House and Westmill Stores, also known as the Post Office, is a building located in Westmill village that dates from the 18th to 19th century, with a shopfront added around 1864 and alterations made in the Queen Anne style in 1900. The structure is built of red brick and features an old red tile roof. It is a two-storey house facing south, adjacent to The Dial House on the east side.

The building has an internal gable chimney on the west side and an external gable chimney on the east side with tumbled brick offsets. The south front is constructed in English bond and has a heavy wooden cornice with modillions that returns at the ends, topped with a triangular pediment that follows the verge. There are three windows on the first floor, which are slightly recessed box sashes with six-over-six panes and moulded architraves. To the left of the central half-glazed panelled door, which is flanked by pilasters and features a moulded architrave and a moulded hood on shaped brackets, is a similar window.

The original shopfront, designed in the Regency style, includes a small-paned bow window and a door on the right, with slender panelled pilasters and an entablature that has a deep fascia. The stall-riser is plastered.

Local climate

Vine House and Westmill Stores (Post Office) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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