Manchester House with the Post Office and Heath Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. House, shop. 14 related planning applications.
Manchester House with the Post Office and Heath Stores
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-pinnacle-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Manchester House with the Post Office and Heath Stores, Horsmonden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 700 405
- Coordinates
- 51.13871, 0.4288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manchester House with The Post Office and Heath Stores is a house and shop pair dating from the 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the late 19th century. The building features red and blue chequered brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor, which has been extended with red brick. It has a plain tiled roof and consists of two storeys and an attic. The ground floor is built out with a pentice roof, and the main roof is half-hipped with stacks located at the rear left and centre, along with two hipped dormers.
On the first floor, there are three top-hung 20th-century casement windows, while the ground floor has multi-paned shop windows and a central boarded door. To the right, there is a single-storey extension known as Heath Stores, which has a stack at the end. The ground floor features a projecting 19th-century plate glass shop front with double half-glazed doors to the centre left. Both sections of the building have catslide outshots to the rear, with the one belonging to the Post Office being particularly notable.
Local climate
Manchester House with the Post Office and Heath Stores 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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