Bv and J Cooke Stores High Halden Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. A Medieval Post Office, Store.
Bv and J Cooke Stores High Halden Post Office
- WRENN ID
- over-vestry-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Post Office, Store
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- TQ 901 372
- Coordinates
- 51.10283, 0.71412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Halden Post Office and B V and J Cooke Stores is probably a late medieval hall-house. It is a timber-framed building that has been refaced with weatherboarding. The south-easternmost window bay features a tile-bung with a jettied gable, likely from the 19th century. The building has two storeys and attics, topped with a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof that includes one hipped dormer and an attic window in the gable. There are three casement windows, except on the first floor below the gable where there is a bay window. The shop front has been modernized.
Local climate
Bv and J Cooke Stores High Halden Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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