The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1984. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- young-marble-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Ightham Road, Shipbourne
- OS grid reference
- TQ 591 521
- Coordinates
- 51.24648, 0.27912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is an 18th-century house with a circa 1830 extension on the south side. The right-hand section, dating from the 18th century, is constructed of red brick and features a tiled roof. It has one modern hipped dormer on the left and a chimney stack on the right. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has two windows, which are 19th-century casements on the first floor. The ground floor includes a shop front that projects on either side of the entrance, which is flanked by slim pilaster strips. The circa 1830 section on the left is made of red and grey brick and also has a tiled hipped roof. This part is two storeys high with two sash windows and a panelled door to the right. There is an arched doorway with a flat sloping hood above a fanlight.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 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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