The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. A C18 House, shop.
The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office)
- WRENN ID
- vacant-marble-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1954
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office), Church Street, East Meon, East Hampshire
- OS grid reference
- SU 680 221
- Coordinates
- 50.99476, -1.03212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Cottage and Shop, also known as the Post Office, is a house and shop dating from the 18th century, with a north side extension added in the early 19th century. The building features walls of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, with some cambered arches, while the later part is stuccoed. It has a tile roof with tile-fronted gables on half-dormers, and a lower-pitched slate roof on the north side.
The south elevation is one and a half storeys high and has two windows with 20th-century casements, along with a panelled door that is sheltered by a hood. The west elevation is characterized by two unequal gables, both of which are stuccoed and rise above brick dentil bands. The north side includes pilasters that frame a ground-floor shopfront featuring a central doorway, a decorative cornice, and windows with small panes. There is one casement window in the north gable and a ground-floor casement on the south side.
Local climate
The Post Cottage and Shop (Post Office) receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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