Post Office and Whitings House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
Post Office and Whitings House
- WRENN ID
- strange-nave-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office and Whitings House, Throwley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 988 542
- Coordinates
- 51.25281, 0.84877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Whitings House is a building that dates back to the 15th century and is currently divided into two houses. It features a timber frame that is exposed, with painted brick infill. Part of the building is clad in painted brick, while another part is weather boarded, topped with a plain tiled roof. The structure has two storeys and a hipped roof with gablets, along with a projecting hip on the right side. There are stacks located at the centre and to the right of the building. On the first floor, there is a five-light wooden casement window to the left and a three-light wooden casement window on the ground floor, along with a single wooden casement window to the right. The left side has a boarded door, while the right side features a four-panel door. Additionally, there are outshots to both the left and right of the building.
Local climate
Post Office and Whitings House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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