Village Stores and Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Shop, house. 2 related planning applications.
Village Stores and Post Office
- WRENN ID
- solemn-stair-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Village Stores and Post Office, A 435, Colesbourne, GL53 9NP
- OS grid reference
- SO 999 132
- Coordinates
- 51.81806, -2.00285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Stores and Post Office is a house that has been adapted to include a village shop, dating from around 1850. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone, featuring dressed stone surrounds for the windows and doorways. The building has dressed gable parapets with roll-moulded saddles and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high, with a single-storey wing that now serves as the shop.
The cross-wing has a full gable that faces the road and includes a canted bay window with a hipped roof, along with a casement window above. There are two small attic gables on the east side, each with a small attic window. An off-centre porch features a parapet gable and a chamfered doorway with a four-centred arch. The building has two ashlar chimneys, one with paired shafts and another with a single shaft, all topped with very thick caps. The shop doorway has a chamfered surround and a small window to the right. Most windows, except for the shop window to the left of the door, have diagonal leaded casements. A ball finial adorns the end gable of the single-storey wing.
Local climate
Village Stores and Post Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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