The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House and shop.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- broken-pinnacle-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- The Post Office, the Street, Ash
- OS grid reference
- TR 288 583
- Coordinates
- 51.27864, 1.28037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and displays a brick dentil eaves cornice. The roof is hipped on the left side, with chimneys located to the centre left and projecting at the end right.
To the left is the post office, which has large wooden casements with 32 panes on both floors, a canted bay window to the right, and a glazing bar sash window above. The central door is half-glazed and shares a fascia and cornice with the bay window.
To the right is the house, which has a regular arrangement of two glazing bar sash windows on each floor. The ground floor windows have segmental heads, and the door is made up of six panels and features a flat hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
The Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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