Post Office Store is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office Store
- WRENN ID
- still-mullion-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2000
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Post Office Store, 77 and 79, St Thomas Street, Wells, BA5 2UY
- OS grid reference
- ST 555 462
- Coordinates
- 51.21331, -2.63717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 19th-century house and shop is located on the north side of St Thomas Street in Wells. The building is constructed of local stone rubble, which has been colourwashed, and features a clay pantiled roof with a western abutment and a plain gable on the east side. It has brick end chimney stacks.
The building is two storeys high with an attic and has two bays. The ground floor of the first bay contains a 2-light shop window and a recessed doorway under a plain fascia. The remaining ground floor windows are sash windows with brick arches. The first floor is similarly arranged with 4-pane sash windows. To the left of the second bay is a vertical-boarded door raised one step and sheltered by a moulded hood. A small, raked dormer window is situated centrally on the roof and contains a 4-light casement window. A flat-roofed extension to the rear has been created from a former outshut. The interior has not been inspected. The building is listed for its contribution to the surrounding townscape.
Local climate
Post Office Store receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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