Post House the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Post Office, house. 3 related planning applications.
Post House the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- endless-keep-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Post Office, house
- Address
- Post House the Post Office, 17, High Street, Cowden, TN8 7JQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 465 404
- Coordinates
- 51.14464, 0.09341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century or earlier timber-framed building, with later additions, located on the south side of Cowden High Street. It comprises two properties, numbered 17 and 19, and historically housed the Post Office and Post House. The building has a very steeply pitched tiled roof with sprocketed eaves and soffit. It features one ridge stack and one end stack. The first floor is rendered, while the ground floor is constructed of painted brick with a tarred plinth. Number 17 has a modern leaded casement window on the upper floor and a 20th-century door and square shop front with a hip tiled hood and plate glass window to the right. Number 19 features 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars in exposed moulded frames, along with a modern six-panel door and a tiled hood. Numbers 13 to 19 (odd), Medway House, and Medway Cottage form a group.
Local climate
Post House the Post Office receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2018
- 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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