Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage.
Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- long-ashlar-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Office Stores, Lambourn
- OS grid reference
- SU 346 772
- Coordinates
- 51.4929, -1.50196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Stores is a cottage located in Eastbury, dating from 1714. It has two storeys and is constructed from a mix of colourwashed rubble and colourwashed brick. The building features a thatched roof with central and flanking chimneys. There is a modern tiled single-storey lean-to extension on the south-east elevation. The first floor has four high casement windows arranged in a 4 x 3 pattern, while the ground floor has an irregular layout. The south-west elevation includes 19th-century shop windows on either side of a central door.
Local climate
Post Office Stores receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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