Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ragged-window-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office, Ashford, EX31 4BY
- OS grid reference
- SS 532 353
- Coordinates
- 51.09888, -4.09687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed of colourwashed cob and stone rubble, featuring painted window surrounds and a slate roof with a gable end. The building has a three-cell cross-passage plan, with an axial brick stack backing onto the cross-passage and another brick stack located at the upper gable end and on the rear wall at the lower end. It stands two storeys high, with staircases at the back of the cross-passage and at the front upper end.
At the lower end, there is a right-angled single-storey projection with a gable-ended pantiled roof, which includes a late 19th-century porch to the cross-passage, featuring a pantiled lean-to roof and a timber segmental arch supported by brackets. The front has a three-window range of sash windows (2/2), along with one three-light casement window (12 panes each light) at the upper end and a tripartite sash window (2/2) in the hall. Although no notable interior features are visible, it is said that there is concealed wooden panelling in the hall. The original roof trusses appear to be intact.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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