The Moor Post Office and House Attached is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Post office, house. 4 related planning applications.
The Moor Post Office and House Attached
- WRENN ID
- broken-loft-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Post office, house
- Address
- The Moor Post Office and House Attached, Hawkhurst, TN18 4NX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 756 297
- Coordinates
- 51.0401, 0.50401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Moor Post Office and the attached house is a building dating from around 1800, with an extension added in the late 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is tile hung on a painted brick ground floor, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys, with chimney stacks located at both ends and one at the rear center. There are two glazing bar sash windows on each floor, and there are remnants of an original central doorway. The shop section has a hipped roof, a five-light window on the first floor, and a plate glass shop front that includes a central double glazed door and a large projecting fascia. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the shop on the right.
Local climate
The Moor Post Office and House Attached receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 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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