Harmony Hill and the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. House, Post Office. 3 related planning applications.
Harmony Hill and the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- bitter-railing-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1966
- Type
- House, Post Office
- Address
- Harmony Hill and the Post Office, 2 and 4, the Street, Shorne, DA12 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 691 712
- Coordinates
- 51.41504, 0.43054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century building, comprising Nos 2 and 4, consists of Harmony Hill and The Post Office, and is located on The Street, Shorne. It is timber-framed with cement-rendered elevations and a clay tile roof. The rectangular building has a hipped roof at both ends, and two main storeys with an attic above. The Post Office section has a double-fronted shop with intact glazing bars. Harmony Hill has a single door and window. There are three casement windows on the first floor and two dormer windows with hipped tiled roofs. A painted moulded timber eaves cornice runs along the top, and a string course is visible on the first-floor level. The original timber structure of the Post Office remains substantially exposed. Historically, the Post Office was used by Charles Dickens to post his manuscripts. The building was originally a single house.
Local climate
Harmony Hill and 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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