The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Post office. 4 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pier-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Post Office, the Street, Bishopsbourne, CT4 5HX
- OS grid reference
- TR 190 524
- Coordinates
- 51.22933, 1.13596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a building dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is two storeys high, rendered, and has a Welsh slate roof. The façade features three windows with slightly segmental arches, which are later hung sashes with glazing bars. The doorway is adorned with wooden pilasters and a dentil cornice above a hood supported by brackets, and it has a radiating fanlight above a half-glazed door. A notable feature of the building is the bowed shop window, which also has glazing bars and a dentil cornice. The corner on the right side is canted at the ground floor to allow for carriage access. There is a 19th-century metal post office sign displayed on the building.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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