The Old Post Office, Post Cottage and The Old Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Commercial, residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office, Post Cottage and The Old Bakery
- WRENN ID
- quiet-porch-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Post Cottage and The Old Bakery, Lewes Road, Forest Row, RH18 5EZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 424 353
- Coordinates
- 51.09936, 0.03331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building comprises three ranges: The Old Post Office, Post Cottage, and The Old Bakery, located on the west side of Lewes Road in Forest Row. The construction dates to the 18th century. The building has a tiled roof and two storeys with five windows. The former Estate Agent’s premises have an ashlar ground floor and a tile-hung upper section with casement windows. Post Cottage is constructed of painted ashlar with a string course and sash windows with glazing bars. The Old Post Office is of painted brick with a modern shop front and sash windows above. A pointed Gothic window is visible in the north wall.
Local climate
The Old Post Office, Post Cottage and The Old Bakery receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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