1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office), and Front Boundary Walling is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage.
1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office), and Front Boundary Walling
- WRENN ID
- first-grate-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office), and Front Boundary Walling, Street Lane, Odcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 505 154
- Coordinates
- 50.93613, -2.70475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a row of four cottages, formerly five, known as The Old Post Office, dating from the early 19th century. Constructed from ham stone ashlar, it features a Welsh slate roof with a shallow pitch, stepped coped gables, and obelisk finials, along with brick chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys high and consists of six bays, with the first two bays possibly being built separately.
The cottages have hollow-chamfer mullioned windows with three lights, set in chamfered recesses that include separate labels. All window lights are arched with incised spandrils and rectangular leaded panes. Each bay, except for the first, has a doorway to the right, with bay one featuring a narrow doorway that has a boarded door set in a deep, four-centre arched recess with a beaded surround and a deep lintel with a label. The doorways to the right of bays two and five have been blocked and converted into two-light windows. There is a small stone plaque between the upper bays one and two, though no legend is visible. The east gable has two bays of matching three-light windows, but the north bay is blind at both levels. There is a 20th-century extension to the west gable.
The cottages are enclosed by small front gardens and a tall ashlar wall with thin coping, standing about 1.5 meters from the houses. The wall features gaps and returns to gateways that align with the doorways, leading up to the doorways via five or six stone steps made from lias.
Local climate
1, 2, 3 and 4 (The Old Post Office), and Front Boundary Walling 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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