The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House, post office.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- lone-remnant-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- The Post Office, Church Street, Kingsbury Episcopi
- OS grid reference
- ST 434 210
- Coordinates
- 50.98567, -2.80748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house and post office with features from the 18th century, although the interior may be older. It has a frontage made of coursed and squared lias stone, with brick on the left side up to the first floor, and a thatched roof supported by two brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. On the first floor, there are three and four-light casement windows. The ground floor features a flush-mounted sash window with glazing bars to the left, along with two large 20th-century shop windows, one of which projects under a tiled pent roof. To the left of the shop windows, there is a door opening with a four-panelled door, where the top two panels are glazed, and it has a zinc tent-canopy hood with trelliswork supports. The entrance to the shop is on the right, with paired glazed doors.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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