The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Cottage.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sacred-fireplace-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Post Office, School Lane, Kilmington
- OS grid reference
- SY 273 979
- Coordinates
- 50.77627, -3.03218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a cottage dating from around the 16th century. It is built of roughcast stone rubble and has a concrete tile roof with gabled ends. The building is two storeys high and features a three-window range with 20th-century casements. There is a central doorway that is accompanied by a 20th-century porch, and a rendered chimney stack is located at one gable end. To the left, there is a one-storey and attic wing that has been much altered. At the rear, there is a semi-circular stair tower.
Inside, the cottage has jointed cruck trusses and a chamfered cambered arch doorframe at the back of the cross passage. Similar doorframes can be found at the newel stairs, which have solid wooden treads, and in a partition on the first floor. The ceiling beams are stop-chamfered. There is an open fireplace that features a cambered and chamfered bressummer with chamfered stone jambs, and the bressummer extends to the left to form a two-centred arch.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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