The Post Office and Stores and House Attached to West is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1985. House, shop.
The Post Office and Stores and House Attached to West
- WRENN ID
- ancient-pediment-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- OS grid reference
- SP 668 702
- Coordinates
- 52.32621, -1.02034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Stores, along with the attached house, is a building located on the north side of the High Street in Ravensthorpe. It likely dates from the early 18th century and features a rendered cob exterior with a thatched roof. Originally designed as a two-unit plan, it is a single-storey structure with an attic. The façade includes a two-window range of 19th-century casements and eyebrow dormers in the attic. To the right, there is a 20th-century shop window and a central 20th-century door. The building has brick stacks at the ends and a 19th-century one-unit extension to the right. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a bressumer.
Local climate
The Post Office and Stores and House Attached to West sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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