Woods Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Woods Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-ember-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Woods Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage, Mersham Stores and Post Office, 8, the Street, Mersham, TN25 6NA
- OS grid reference
- TR 052 397
- Coordinates
- 51.12044, 0.93148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woods Stores, Post Office, and Hollyhock Cottage is a house that has been subdivided and includes a later shop with a post office. This building dates from the 17th century or earlier and was extended at the front of No 8 in the early to mid 19th century. It is timber-framed, rendered, and has been extended with rendered brick. The roof is plain tiled.
At the rear, there is a two-storey timber-framed wing with stacks on the left and right, featuring one 20th-century window and a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets. The early to mid 19th-century extension on the right projects forward and has a hipped tiled roof with three windows. The central window is a 16-pane sash, flanked by sashes with marginal glazing. The 19th-century shopfront has a deep fascia, pilasters, and two three-light shop windows for Woods Stores, which are divided by a central half-glazed double door, along with a similar shop window for the post office to the right. The return elevations are made of red and blue brick on a ragstone base, with hipped rear wings. Inside, the ground floor features exposed floor joists and axial beams that date from the 17th century or earlier.
Local climate
Woods Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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- 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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