The Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
The Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- roaming-timber-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1980
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- The Post Office Stores, Church Street, West Chiltington, RH20 2JW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 090 184
- Coordinates
- 50.95541, -0.44878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office Stores is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building that has been refaced with brick and stone, which is now painted. It features a hipped tiled roof and casement windows, along with modern shop windows. The building is two storeys high and has three windows.
Local climate
The Post Office 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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