Beckley Post Office Rosemary Cottage the Posting House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Post office, cottage.
Beckley Post Office Rosemary Cottage the Posting House
- WRENN ID
- salt-brass-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Post office, cottage
- Address
- Beckley Post Office Rosemary Cottage the Posting House, Main Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 860 241
- Coordinates
- 50.98661, 0.64936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosemary Cottage, The Posting House, and Beckley Post Office is an early 19th-century building located on the south side of Main Street in Beckley. It is two storeys high and features eight windows. The exterior is weatherboarded with tiled roofs. Rosemary Cottage has casement windows, while the other sections have bay windows on both floors, although the glazing bars are missing. There are also two small shop windows, one dating from the 19th century and the other being modern.
Local climate
Beckley Post Office Rosemary Cottage the Posting House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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