The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1977. Post office.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- other-pediment-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1977
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 1 and 2 the Old Post Office, Gardner Street, Herstmonceux
- OS grid reference
- TQ 635 125
- Coordinates
- 50.88938, 0.32336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a building likely dating from the 17th century. It has been refronted with red brick on the ground floor and features tile-hanging above. The building has a modillion eaves cornice and a tiled roof. It is two storeys high and has three windows, which are modern casement windows.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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