The Post Office Stores and House Attached is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Shop and house.

The Post Office Stores and House Attached

WRENN ID
tilted-niche-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1967
Type
Shop and house
Address
The Post Office Stores and House Attached, the Street, Teston
OS grid reference
TQ 703 534
Coordinates
51.25513, 0.44029
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office Stores and House Attached is a house and shop located on Church Street in Teston, dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of painted brick, with the left gable end featuring a chequered pattern of red and grey brick. It has a plain tile roof and is situated on a canted corner site, comprising two storeys and a garret. The left section has no plinth, while the right section has a painted stone plinth. The roof is gabled, and there are rear stacks on both the left and right sides.

The windows display irregular fenestration, with two horizontally-sliding sashes featuring segmental heads, one positioned towards the outer end of each section. The ground floor has slightly larger similar windows, along with a small single light with a segmental head at the right end of the longer left section. A boarded door is located under a flat corniced hood at the left end of the right section.

There is a late 19th-century two-storey addition to the right, made of painted brick and topped with a slate roof, which has no windows. The ground-floor shop front consists of two vertical lights on either side of a half-glazed door, all beneath a continuous consoled wooden cornice. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

The Post Office Stores and House Attached receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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