The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. Hall house.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gateway-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 45-49, the Street, Cobham, DA12 3BX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 670 684
- Coordinates
- 51.39026, 0.3996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a building that likely dates back to the 16th century and was originally a hall house. It features a timber-framed structure that is now faced with stucco, while the west end is weatherboarded. The upper part at the rear is tile-hung, and the building has a tiled hipped roof. It includes casement windows, and much of the original timber-framing can still be seen inside.
Local climate
The Old 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 lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
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- 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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