The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Cottage.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- swift-pavement-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 17, High Street, Butleigh, BA6 8SU
- OS grid reference
- ST 520 337
- Coordinates
- 51.10108, -2.68563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with some alterations from the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble, featuring two brick stacks and a thatched roof. The building stands two storeys high and has three bays. The first floor includes two three-light moulded wooden mullioned windows with leaded lights, while the ground floor has a sixteen-pane flush mounted sash window to the left and a fixed twelve-pane casement window at the extreme left. The central door opening contains a glazed door, and all ground floor openings are topped with wooden lintels. The left side of the building features 19th-century glazing that was added when it served as a post office. Inside, there are chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, a fireplace with a broad wooden bressumer, and a collar-beam roof from the 17th century.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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