The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. Cottage.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- unlit-moulding-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Rockbeare
- OS grid reference
- SY 042 936
- Coordinates
- 50.73487, -3.35839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with brick stacks and a thatched roof. The cottage has a three-room plan and faces north-west. The left room features a narrow projecting end stack, while the right room has an outer rear corner stack. It is two storeys high and has an irregular front with three windows, which include 19th and 20th century casements with glazing bars; the first-floor windows are significantly smaller than those on the ground floor. The front doorway is located to the right of centre and has a 20th-century door set behind a 20th-century monopitch, tile-roofed porch. The roof is hipped on the left side and gable-ended on the right. The rear of the cottage has similar window arrangements. Inside, there is little original detail, but the centre and left rooms feature neatly soffit-chamfered but unstopped axial beams. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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