Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Post office. 3 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- grey-mortar-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 1, Town Street, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5BB
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 436
- Coordinates
- 51.19075, -2.54703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, built around 1850, features a limestone rubble construction with a Bath stone facade and a slate roof, complete with a coped verge and an ashlar stack on the right. The building is three stories high and has three bays. The modern shopfront is topped with a narrow dentil cornice. The original windows include 12-light sash windows on the first floor and 9-light sash windows on the second floor, both set in moulded architraves. The first-floor windows have moulded hoods supported by shaped consoles, and there is a string course at each sill level. The building is finished with a moulded and dentillated eaves cornice.
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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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