Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1976. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Post Office Cottage

WRENN ID
frozen-postern-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
Post Office Cottage, Whitsbury, SP6 3QD
OS grid reference
SU 127 191
Coordinates
50.97121, -1.81957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Post Office Cottage is a cottage that was once a post office, dating from the 18th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill and a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. There is a central four-panel door, with two-light casements under cambered heads on each side of both floors. The roof is hipped to the left-hand side, and there is a stack at the right-hand end.

Local climate

Post Office Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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