Post Office Stores and Adjoining House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1986. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Post Office Stores and Adjoining House
- WRENN ID
- carved-terrace-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Post Office Stores and Adjoining House, RG20 6NH
- OS grid reference
- SU 520 800
- Coordinates
- 51.51685, -1.25075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th and 19th century house, later used as a post office store and adjoining house. The building is constructed of brick with grey brick headers and red brick stretchers, and has a half-hipped tiled roof. It has a long plan running north to south. The west elevation has four wide, multi-paned sash windows on the first floor. On the ground floor, there are late 19th or early 20th century shop windows flanking a glazed door on the right. A four-panel door, with glazed top panels, is situated between the sashes on the left. Two ridge chimneys are present.
Local climate
Post Office Stores and Adjoining House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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