Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- keen-chalk-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Office, Church Road, West Peckham, ME18 5JL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 644 525
- Coordinates
- 51.2484, 0.35504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a cottage dating from the 17th century, which was refronted to the north in the late 18th century. The west front features red brick on the ground floor and tile-hung cladding on the first floor. It has a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped at the rear, with a catslide to the south. The building is two storeys high and has two windows; the first floor has casement windows, while the ground floor features glazing bar sashes with sliding shutters. There is a central porch added in the 19th century. The north front shows a two-storey refronting with a parapet, two sash windows on the first floor, and a wide shop front below.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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