The Post Office and Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Coaching inn, houses. 1 related planning application.
The Post Office and Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gutter-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Coaching inn, houses
- Address
- The Post Office and Old Post Office, Washford Pyne, EX17 4QJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 802 099
- Coordinates
- 50.87646, -3.70295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Old Post Office consists of two houses that were formerly a coaching inn, likely built in the late 18th to early 19th century. The structure is made of plastered cob and rubble, featuring a rubble stack with a 19th-century brick chimney shaft. The roof is partly covered with slate and partly with corrugated asbestos, and it may have originally been thatched.
These adjoining houses have a two-room plan and face south-west, with The Post Office located at the left (north-western) end and the Old Post Office at the right (south-eastern) end. There is an original lobby entrance behind a two-storey porch towards the left end, along with a large axial stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces and a second axial stack located to the right of the center. The building has two storeys and an overall six-window front, featuring various late 19th and 20th-century casements, most of which have glazing bars. The ground floor window at the right end (the Old Post Office) has late 19th-century margin panes that contain coloured glass.
A 20th-century glass-sided porch is present, and the original lobby entry to the left of center is now disused. The gabled two-storey porch has a plain outer opening with a flat head and benches along each side. The lobby appears to have never had an external door. There are disused doors on each side, including a late 18th-century two-fielded panel door on the left (The Post Office). The Post Office is now accessed from the left (north-west) end. The interior features plain carpentry details where exposed, but the roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Post Office and Old Post Office receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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