Church Cottages Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Cottage, post office.
Church Cottages Post Office
- WRENN ID
- young-footing-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Cottage, post office
- Address
- Church Cottages Post Office, High Street, Hurley
- OS grid reference
- SU 826 838
- Coordinates
- 51.54721, -0.81006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages Post Office is a row of three cottages, now functioning as a post office and two cottages, dating from the 17th century and 19th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building features a combination of part timber frame with painted brick infill and part painted brick. It has an old tile gabled roof and a rectangular plan, likely consisting of three framed bays. The structure is one and a half storeys high and includes a large ridge chimney in the center, which has an offset head and clay pots.
Facing the road, there are three gabled dormers, which contain one two-light and two three-light leaded casement windows. Below, there are four windows with glazing bars: on the left, there is a double sash shop window; in the center, a sash window; to the right of this, a horizontal sliding sash; and a larger sash window at the right end. Between the sash window and the next window on the left, there is a plank door with a segmental-arched head, and a similar door is located to the right of the shop window. The shop entry is situated on the north (left) gable, which also features an early 20th-century shop window.
Local climate
Church Cottages 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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