Former Post Office and Epsom School of Art extension is a Grade II listed building in the Epsom and Ewell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Post office, educational building. 11 related planning applications.
Former Post Office and Epsom School of Art extension
- WRENN ID
- iron-gallery-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epsom and Ewell
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1974
- Type
- Post office, educational building
- Address
- Former Post Office and Epsom School of Art extension, 74 and 76, High Street, KT19 8BA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 207 607
- Coordinates
- 51.33335, -0.26776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building, formerly known as the Post Office and Epsom School of Art extension, dates back to 1897. It is constructed of red brick with an ashlar ground floor, dressings, and parapets, topped by a pitched tile roof. The structure stands three storeys tall and features an eaves cornice adorned with moulded flower ornamentation and a parapet with crenellations. There are six ranges of mullion and transom casements, which include one canted bay. The ground floor windows of the Post Office are distinguished by cusped tracery in each light, and there is a gable over the central bay of the Post Office.
Local climate
Former Post Office and Epsom School of Art extension sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 11 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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