Bethersden Post Office and Village View is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A Early C19 Post office and house. 1 related planning application.
Bethersden Post Office and Village View
- WRENN ID
- small-ember-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Post office and house
- Address
- Bethersden Post Office and Village View, the Street, TN26 3AD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 929 402
- Coordinates
- 51.12942, 0.75551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an early 19th-century post office and shop, known as Bethersden Post Office and Village View. It is two storeys high and constructed of red brick with grey brick headers on the ground floor, and tile-hung on the first floor. The roof is hipped and covered in slate. There are four sash windows with intact glazing bars, including one within a recessed section on the right-hand side, which represents Village View. A simple doorcase is present, as is a rectangular fanlight above the door.
Local climate
Bethersden Post Office and Village View sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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