Littlebourne Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Post office. 1 related planning application.
Littlebourne Post Office
- WRENN ID
- white-garret-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Littlebourne Post Office, 22, High Street, CT3 1ST
- OS grid reference
- TR 209 574
- Coordinates
- 51.27305, 1.16605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Littlebourne Post Office is an 18th-century building located on the northeast side of High Street in Littlebourne. It is two storeys high and constructed of brown brick, featuring red brick dressings. The building has a tiled roof and a moulded brick eaves cornice. It is topped with shaped Dutch gable ends that are partly concealed by the party walls of the adjoining properties. The facade includes three sashes, although the glazing bars are missing. There is a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Littlebourne Post Office 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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