The Post Office and Merlin Cottage (Right) is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Post office, cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Post Office and Merlin Cottage (Right)
- WRENN ID
- tall-steeple-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Post office, cottage
- Address
- The Post Office and Merlin Cottage (Right), Bourton-On-The-Hill, GL56 9AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 175 324
- Coordinates
- 51.99058, -1.74524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Merlin Cottage form a single building, dating to the 18th century with a 19th-century addition. The Post Office section was built in 1729, as indicated by the inscription "I.C." and the date carved into the stone facade. Merlin Cottage was added in the 19th century.
The Post Office is constructed of finely dressed limestone with a limestone slate roof, flat gable coping, and the remains of ashlar stacks. Merlin Cottage is of roughly dressed limestone with a slate roof, flat gable coping, and an artificial stone stack. The Post Office is rectangular, with the cottage attached to the right.
The Post Office has a symmetrical facade. It is two storeys high with an attic containing two 19th-century two-light roof dormers with wood casements. The facade is divided into three bays; it has two mullioned and transomed casements flanking a central single light with a transom. Modern shop windows are situated to either side of the central section, and below is a modern door with a flat, leaded hood supported on brackets. A continuous band runs above the shop windows. Merlin Cottage is a single-windowed section, featuring two 12-pane wood casements with cambered heads, alongside a modern part-glazed door with a lattice hood.
The gable ends of the Post Office roof have flat coping and repaired 20th-century stacks. Merlin Cottage has flat gable end coping and a 20th-century artificial stone right gable end stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Post Office and Merlin Cottage (Right) receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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