The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Post office. 7 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- old-railing-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1993
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Post Office, Fore Street, Totnes
- OS grid reference
- SX 804 603
- Coordinates
- 50.43112, -3.68422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a building located on Fore Street in Totnes, dating from the 1920s. It is constructed of brick with slate-hung main elevations and features gabled slate roofs with a rendered end stack. The building has two storeys and a one-window front, with a central gable above a two-storey bay window that contains 6/6-pane sashes and outer 4/4-pane sashes. There is a slate projection over a tripartite shop front, which is framed by pilasters and includes a central doorway with a fanlight and multi-pane shop windows with glazing bars. The right-hand return continues with similar detailing and irregular fenestration, including a lower two-storey projection with a half-hipped roof. A bracketed canopy is present over the entrance to a simpler one-storey rear sorting office. The interior has not been inspected. This building is a good example of a Vernacular Revival style, using traditional materials and designed to blend in with the historic character of the street.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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