Post Office and Adjoining Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A C18 House, shop.
Post Office and Adjoining Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-latch-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House, shop
- OS grid reference
- ST 470 158
- Coordinates
- 50.93955, -2.75518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and adjoining cottage is a house and shop dating from the 18th century. It is constructed from roughly coursed ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a double Roman clay tiled roof with plain gables, along with brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the center. The building has two storeys and consists of four bays.
The windows are chamfered mullioned with two lights, incorporating steel casement inserts. The first bay on the lower level has a 20th-century square bay window that is three lights wide, complete with a transom and a flat roof. The second bay features a four flush panel door set in a plain ashlar surround, topped with a flat stone hood supported by shaped stone brackets. The third bay contains a 20th-century door in a plain surround, with the window from this bay apparently relocated to the right.
On the west gable, there is a single-bay extension that is set lower, which includes a matching first-floor window and garage doors below. At the top of the east gable, there is a blocked circular attic window. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Post Office and Adjoining Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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