West Dean Post Office and the House Attached is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. Post office.
West Dean Post Office and the House Attached
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-gravel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Chichester MP: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- West Dean Post Office and the House Attached, 103 and 104, Park Lane, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 858 123
- Coordinates
- 50.90425, -0.78067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Dean Post Office and the house attached is a single building with a 19th-century exterior that covers an older structure. It stands two storeys tall and features three windows. The façade is constructed from flints, accented with red brick dressings, quoins, and dripstones above the windows. The roof is hipped and tiled, with a pentice on the east side and a wet area. The windows are casement style.
Local climate
West Dean Post Office and the House Attached receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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