School House Sidbury Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
School House Sidbury Post Office
- WRENN ID
- young-moulding-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House Sidbury Post Office, Fore Street, Sidmouth, EX10 0SD
- OS grid reference
- SY 139 917
- Coordinates
- 50.719, -3.22066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, likely dating from the 18th century, is a pair of roughcast cottages, probably built with cob construction. It has thatched roofs with an eaves band. There are five windows in total, all sash windows with intact glazing bars. The ground floor of the section which currently serves as the post office has been modernised in the 19th century with plain shop windows and a new door. The building forms a group with The Old Clock House, Red Lion Inn, Oak Cottage, Royal Oak Inn and numbers 103 to 106 on Fore Street, Sidbury.
Local climate
School House Sidbury Post Office receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2003
- 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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