Post Office, Flank Boundary Walls with Piers and Front Iron Railings and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House.

Post Office, Flank Boundary Walls with Piers and Front Iron Railings and Gates

WRENN ID
vast-groin-hyssop
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
Address
Post Office, Flank Boundary Walls with Piers and Front Iron Railings and Gates, Norton St. Philip
OS grid reference
ST 803 576
Coordinates
51.31761, -2.28397
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office in Norton St. Philip is an 18th-century house constructed from ashlar Doulting stone. It features a cornice and a coped parapet, topped with a Welsh slate gabled roof that has copings and ashlar end chimney stacks. The building is two stories high and has a three-window front with a central entrance. The entrance includes a four-panel bolection moulded door with a semi-circular fanlight, all set within a keyed arch surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and there is a semi-circular head above the window located over the door. The flank walls are made of ashlar stone, approximately 1 meter high, with coped tops and corner piers that rise to 1.2 meters, featuring cross gabled caps. The front boundary is marked by single spearhead iron railings on a chamfered plinth, along with a matching iron gate.

Local climate

Post Office, Flank Boundary Walls with Piers and Front Iron Railings and Gates 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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