Ashburton Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Post office. 1 related planning application.
Ashburton Post Office
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cobalt-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Post office
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Ashburton Post Office, 4, St Lawrence Lane, Teignbridge, TQ13 7DD
- OS grid reference
- SX 756 698
- Coordinates
- 50.5153, -3.75538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashburton Post Office is a house that has been converted into a post office with living accommodation above. It was built in the mid to late 19th century. The front is solidly rendered, and it has a slated roof. The building stands three storeys high and is three windows wide. The ground storey features windows and a doorway with flanking pilasters and cornices, and beneath the capitals are shields filled with foliage. The entrance has double doors, each with two panels, and a fanlight with radial bars. The upper storey windows also have flanking pilasters, with those on the second storey featuring vermiculated keystones topped by female heads. Above these windows is a continuous stringcourse that dips down to form a hood over each head. The building has a bracketed eaves-cornice and 2-paned sashes throughout.
Local climate
Ashburton Post Office receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 1 application
- 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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