The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- turning-lime-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Post Office, 192, Tonbridge Road, Wateringbury, ME18 5NL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 691 535
- Coordinates
- 51.25561, 0.42295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house and shop. It was originally faced with red brick in a Flemish bond, with some vitrified headers, and has a tiled roof with a large brick stack. The building is two storeys high with attics, and has two windows, with one gabled and plastered dormer window. A brick band runs along the front. The first-floor windows are 3-light wooden casements with rubbed brick voussoirs. The central doorway has a half-glazed door and a flat hood. The right-hand window lacks glazing bars. To the left is a shop front from around 1830, featuring paterae and a moulded architrave. The upper half of the shop window is made up of early 19th-century panes, while the lower half incorporates a GR letter box and two stamp machines. The building has a brick plinth.
Also listed is a cottage, early 19th century, with painted brick and a hipped slate roof. It has a plinth and a band. Casement windows are present. The shop front includes a door to the right. A rear wing is constructed from red brick with grey headers, and has an eaves cornice to a tiled roof with slope stacks. This wing is two storeys and has a four-window range, with garage doors on the left. A modern bay window is located to the left of the centre, and there are two doors on the right. The first floor has sash windows.
Local climate
The Post Office 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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