Post Office Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Shop, house.
Post Office Stores
- WRENN ID
- riven-granite-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Post Office Stores, Castle Street, Keinton Mandeville
- OS grid reference
- ST 551 309
- Coordinates
- 51.07605, -2.64132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Stores is a shop with a house that has origins in the 18th century and has been modified over time. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, and it features a colourwashed finish. The roof is made of plain clay tiles and has a stepped coped east gable topped with a ball finial, along with brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and consists of three bays. An attached building to the first bay forms a double-roofed unit.
The projecting wing has 8-pane casements on both levels, which are set in the upper halves of former doorways, with rendered panels underneath and voussoired flat heads. There is a boarded door in the wing wall to the left. On the west side, a stone stair with a 19th-century wrought iron handrail on balusters leads to a part-glazed door in the upper bay 2. In bay 3, there is a 16-pane sash window above a large 6-pane shop window below, with a 20th-century door in a recess to the left, both situated under a plain hood with a fascia board above. A letter box is set into the wall to the right. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Post Office Stores receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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