Anvils (Finch of Winchelsea) Winchelsea Post Office and Household Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Shop.
Anvils (Finch of Winchelsea) Winchelsea Post Office and Household Stores
- WRENN ID
- over-zinc-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Anvils (Finch of Winchelsea) Winchelsea Post Office and Household Stores, High Street, Icklesham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 905 173
- Coordinates
- 50.92451, 0.71035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winchelsea Post Office and Household Stores, also known as Anvils (Finch of Winchelsea), is a single building dating from the 17th century or earlier. The structure features a timber frame that has been refaced with painted brick on the ground floor and is tile-hung above. On the first floor, there are casement windows, while the ground floor includes shop windows, with those at Anvils dating from the 19th century. At the east end, there is a carriage archway that reveals exposed timbering in the ceiling and east wall. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a total of six windows and two hipped dormers.
Local climate
Anvils (Finch of Winchelsea) Winchelsea Post Office and Household Stores receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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