Lavender Cottage Withiel Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1988. Houses.

Lavender Cottage Withiel Post Office

WRENN ID
frozen-buttress-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1988
Type
Houses
OS grid reference
SW 994 654
Coordinates
50.45417, -4.82621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lavender Cottage and Withiel Post Office are a pair of attached houses dating from the mid to late 18th century, with some later alterations and additions. They are constructed of granite rubble and feature a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends, along with gable end stacks and an axial stack with brick shafts.

Lavender Cottage, located on the left, has a two-room plan, with each room heated by a gable end stack; the stack on the right is positioned axially. It has a symmetrical two-storey front with two windows, all of which are 20th-century 12-pane lights, and features segmental arches at the ground floor. The central entrance is a 20th-century plank door. To the left, there is a single-storey rendered lean-to, likely originally a kitchen or scullery, which has a 20th-century window at the front and a large stack on the left side.

Withiel Post Office, situated on the right, has a two-storey, asymmetrical front with two windows. All windows are 19th-century four-pane sashes, and the ground floor window on the right has a cambered brick arch. The entrance is a 20th-century half-glazed door, with a small single light window to the left. There is also a 19th-century single-storey addition on the right side, which includes a 20th-century window at the front. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Lavender Cottage Withiel Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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