The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Post office, shop. 1 related planning application.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- gilded-copper-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Post office, shop
- Address
- The Post Office, Launcells, EX23 9LT
- OS grid reference
- SS 262 069
- Coordinates
- 50.83596, -4.4694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a 19th-century building that serves as both a post office and a shop. It features a colourwashed, rendered exterior and a hipped slate roof with a brick chimney. The shop front faces the street, while the house accommodation is located at the rear of the shop, with an entrance to the house through a porch at the left end and an entrance to the shop on the street front. The building has a two-storey front.
On the ground floor, there are canted bay windows on either side of the entrance for shop display, each bay containing 18 panes with moulded glazing bars above an unrendered stone plinth. The double-leaf glazed entrance door has six panes on each leaf, although the lower part of the door has been repaired with metal sheeting. The first floor features two pairs of timber sash windows, each with two panes per sash. Additionally, there is a letter box in the wall to the right of the bay window. The Post Office is prominently situated on a corner in the hamlet of Grimscott.
Local climate
The Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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