Rochester Head Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1991. Post office.
Rochester Head Post Office
- WRENN ID
- grey-rubble-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1991
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Rochester Head Post Office, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 745 682
- Coordinates
- 51.3862, 0.50761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rochester Head Post Office is a head post office built in 1908, with the architect not known. It is constructed from gault brick, featuring red brick and limestone dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with two tall ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical front with five bays, where the second and fourth bays slightly project.
The parapet has stone coping and a moulded dentil cornice. On the first floor, there are horned sash windows in exposed frames, all with glazing bars. The windows in the outer bays and the tripartite window in the center have rubbed brick surrounds and keystones, while the windows in bays two and four feature stone shouldered architraves. There is a continuous sill band, with rubbed brick aprons for bays one and five, and stone aprons for bays two and four, the latter set on the ground floor cornice.
The entrance is located in bay two, and there is a deeply recessed window in bay four. The design includes Tuscan columns and entablatures that connect over the central tripartite window arrangement. A continuous stone plinth rises in the outer bays to form aprons for the sash windows, similar to those in the rubbed brick surrounds. A modern central dormer has been added. Overall, the building is a thoughtful and good-quality design.
Local climate
Rochester Head Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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