Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1970. Post Office. 1 related planning application.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sheer-passage-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1970
- Type
- Post Office
- Address
- Post Office, Broad Street, South Molton, EX36 3AG
- OS grid reference
- SS 713 258
- Coordinates
- 51.01764, -3.83521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Post Office located on Broad Street in South Molton, originally constructed in 1809 as a Corn Market and converted to a Post Office in 1888. It is two storeys tall and built of red brick with a hipped slated roof. The front elevation features three round-headed sash windows, while the side elevation has five. A wide central round-headed doorcase is adorned with a dentilled entablature. The spandrells are decorated with motifs of oak and ivy leaves, crowns, rams, and mitres. There is a plain stringcourse, and an inscription reads: "Post Office. John Galliford Esq. Mayor 1888".
Local climate
Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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