The Post House (Ss 55285 15065) Approximately 2 Metres to South East of Bellevue is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.

The Post House (Ss 55285 15065) Approximately 2 Metres to South East of Bellevue

WRENN ID
inner-steeple-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 552 150
Coordinates
50.91685, -4.06011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post House is a disused cottage located approximately 2 metres southeast of Bellevue in Beaford. It is likely from the mid to late 18th century. The building features a ground floor made of painted stone rubble and a first floor rendered in cob, topped with a gable-ended asbestos-slate roof. There is an adjoining outbuilding constructed from painted stone rubble with a hipped corrugated iron roof.

The cottage has a one-room plan with an integral end stack on the right, which is now truncated, and a staircase in the left-hand rear corner. It may have originally had a two-room layout, with a smaller unheated room to the left, though the partition wall has since been removed. The structure stands two storeys tall, with the outbuilding being only one storey.

On the exterior, the front is symmetrically fenestrated, featuring two small 19th-century two-light wooden casements on the first floor and another similar casement on the ground floor to the right. To the left, there is a 19th-century boarded door framed in beaded wood. A wide battered buttress is located on the ground floor to the left of the door. The adjoining outbuilding has a 19th-century four-pane window to the left and a pair of large boarded double doors to the right.

The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted that the ground-floor room contains an open fireplace on the right, with the staircase in the left-hand rear corner and joists spanning from front to back.

Local climate

The Post House (Ss 55285 15065) Approximately 2 Metres to South East of Bellevue sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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