Post Office and Trots Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1960. Post office and house. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office and Trots Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-bonework-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1960
- Type
- Post office and house
- Address
- Post Office and Trots Cottage, Buckland, WR12 7NA
- OS grid reference
- SP 073 356
- Coordinates
- 52.01944, -1.89361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Trots Cottage is a building that serves as both a post office and a house, dating from the 17th century with early 19th-century alterations and further modifications in the late 20th century. It is constructed from coursed, squared stone, with the right wing brought to courses, and features a stone slate roof, with an artificial stone slate slope on the right return. The building has a 'U' plan that opens to the road and consists of three windows across the center, being one room deep, with the right wing extended at the rear, and stands at one and a half storeys.
The facade facing the road has a plain gable on the left side at ground level, which includes a late 20th-century window that was originally a doorway. To the right, there is a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould, a boarded door with a slight Tudor arch beneath a deep stone lintel, and a single-light window with a stone lintel. There are two two-light casements on either side of the stone mullion, which originally featured a four-light mullion with a king mullion but was altered by 1900. The left return of the right wing also has a hoodmould over a window, and there is a half-glazed door at the front with a concrete lintel and hoodmould, alongside a small-pane shop window to the right with a fascia.
On the first floor, there is a two-light casement with small panes and a timber lintel on the left wing, and the wall rises to two stone dormers, each featuring a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould. The parapet gable has cross-gablet apices. In the gable of the right wing, there are two two-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. The building has a chimney on the ridge of the left wing with a square base and a diamond-set stack above, a plain chimney on the ridge center of the main wing, and a plain chimney with a moulded cap at the rear of the right wing.
Internally, there is an exposed beam across the shop, which was formerly the head of a partition, and exposed old joists over the front section trimmed before the gable wall. In 1904, the door leading to what is now the shop was boarded and features a cambered arch with stone voussoirs. The building forms a group with Hill Farmhouse.
Local climate
Post Office and Trots Cottage 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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