The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Commercial.

The Old Post Office

WRENN ID
heavy-wicket-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
Commercial
Address
The Old Post Office, Canterbury Road, Godmersham
OS grid reference
TR 066 507
Coordinates
51.21813, 0.95778
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Post Office is a mid-19th century building that has been converted from a shop to a house. It features painted brickwork and a plain tile roof. The structure is two storeys high and has a hipped roof with a dogtooth cornice, with stacks located on the left and right sides. The front has a regular arrangement of three windows on the first floor, which are glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, and the central window is both gauged and keyed. On the ground floor, there is one glazing bar sash window to the left and a 20th-century plate glass shop window to the right. The entrance is a central panelled door set within a one-storey porch that has a kneelered gable. This building is included in the register for its group value.

Local climate

The Old Post Office receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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