Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1950. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-moulding-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Hendon MP: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1950
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Office Cottage, the Ridgeway Nw7, NW7 4EB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 222 929
- Coordinates
- 51.62219, -0.23474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Cottage is an 18th-century building located on the south-west side of The Ridgeway. It is constructed with whitened weatherboard and stands two storeys high. The cottage features an open pediment adorned with small modillions supported by brackets at the front. There are two doors and one central window, with the ground floor window retaining its original glazing.
Local climate
Post Office Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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