Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House, post office. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- second-steel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Post Office, High Street, Rode, BA11 6PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 804 538
- Coordinates
- 51.28364, -2.28235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century house that was later altered in the early 19th century and now serves as a post office. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with a triple-Roman tile roof and a brick ridge stack. The building is two stories high with five bays, featuring 16-pane sash windows set in ogee-moulded stone surrounds. Half of the ground-floor window on the left side has been blocked with ashlar stonework, incorporating a post office box. Weathered strings run above the window heads on both the ground floor and the first floor. A central door opening has a moulded wooden surround and a 6-panelled door with the two upper panels glazed. Above the door is a flat, moulded wooden hood supported by cut wooden brackets.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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