Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- turning-paling-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office, the Green, Boughton Aluph, TN25 4HH
- OS grid reference
- TR 022 473
- Coordinates
- 51.18913, 0.89341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the 17th century, with 18th-century cladding. It has a timber frame covered in irregular chequered brick and features a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has a brick modillion eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof, with a ridge stack located on the left side. There are three windows on the front. To the left and right, there are 20th-century single-storey extensions, with the entrance located in the left extension. Additionally, there is a 19th-century wrought iron lamp bracket positioned between the first-floor windows on the right.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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