Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-truss-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Cottage, Rectory Lane, Selsey, PO20 9DU
- OS grid reference
- SZ 865 951
- Coordinates
- 50.74992, -0.77482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Cottage is an 18th-century building located in Selsey, Church Norton on Rectory Lane. It is two storeys tall and features three windows. The ground floor is covered in stucco, while the upper floor is faced with weatherboarding. The east end of the cottage is made of brick and cobbles, both of which are painted. The roof is thatched, and the glazing bars are intact. There is a weatherboarded porch, and at the northeast corner, there is a small one-storey gabled projection that is faced with cobbles. The building was formerly listed as Rose Cottage.
Local climate
Post Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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