Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. House.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- standing-ledge-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office, the Ridgeway, Smeeth
- OS grid reference
- TR 064 400
- Coordinates
- 51.12217, 0.94907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is an 18th-century house located on the east side of The Ridgeway in Smeeth. It features a red brick and tile hung exterior with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a roof with chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. The windows are regularly arranged, with two glazing bar sashes on each floor. The central entrance door consists of four moulded panels and is topped by a flat hood.
Local climate
Old Post Office 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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