Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage.
Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box
- WRENN ID
- ragged-rotunda-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 911 445
- Coordinates
- 51.18939, -3.55919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Luccombe Post Office is a cottage that includes a mounting block and a wall box. It likely dates from the 16th century or early 17th century, with a south wing added later and an early 19th-century addition to the west. The building is rendered over rubble and cob, featuring a thatched roof that is half hipped on the left and hipped on the right. There is a roughcast lateral stack with a circular chimney to the right of the entrance, and a tall brick stack rising from the eaves on the right return.
The layout is probably a single cell heated by the lateral stack, which has been enlarged to an L-plan. The Post Office addition on the right has an angled return wall and an outshut at the rear, forming a square plan. The building is two storeys high, with a tiny glazed opening on the first floor to the left. The lateral stack has a 19th-century two-light headed casement window to the right, and the end bay is unlit and recessed with a door to the Post Office below. This door is a stable-type with a pierced half door in front, and there is a 19th-century two-light casement window to the right of the stack. The entrance to the cottage is on the left, featuring a half-glazed door with marginal glazing bars and a rustic wooden porch with a thatched roof. To the left, there is a mounting block with three steps.
On the left return, there is an early 19th-century three-light leaded iron casement window in the gable end, along with a small steeply chamfered two-light stair window in the wing to the left. The ground floor has two two-light windows, one of which is from the 20th century, and the wall box is located to the right. The right return features a wall that angles out, with a 19th-century window on the first floor and a 20th-century window on the ground floor, along with an outshut at the rear. The interior has not been seen. The 19th-century wall box has the name of Smith and Hawkes Birmingham at its base. This is a picturesque and irregular thatched cottage.
Local climate
Luccombe Post Office Mounting Block and Wall Box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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