Cornerways Old Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Shop.
Cornerways Old Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- crooked-marble-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Cornerways Old Post Office Stores, Stodmarsh Road, Wickhambreaux
- OS grid reference
- TR 220 605
- Coordinates
- 51.30091, 1.18337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cornerways Old Post Office Stores is a building that was formerly the village bakehouse, dating from the 17th century. It has one storey with attics and features a tiled roof with one hipped dormer. The front includes one cambered sash window and a simple doorcase. The Old Post Office Stores, which is dated 1730, may actually be older. This part of the building has two storeys and is pebbledashed, with a tiled roof and two casement windows, along with a simple doorcase. Inside, there is one inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Cornerways Old Post Office Stores sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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