Bruton Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bruton Post Office
- WRENN ID
- endless-spandrel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bruton Post Office, 40, High Street, BA10 0AE
- OS grid reference
- ST 682 348
- Coordinates
- 51.11161, -2.45544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bruton Post Office is an early 19th-century house located on the south side of High Street in Bruton. It is constructed from Doulting stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with plain gables, along with brick end chimney stacks. The building has three storeys and two bays. The first bay includes a small shopfront with a 28-pane window and an angled return to a part-glazed door on the left, topped by a simple fascia. The second bay has a six-panel door with a fanlight set into a semi-circular arched recess. On the first floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, with a wrought iron bracket supporting a hanging sign between them. The second floor features 9-pane sash windows. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Bruton Post Office receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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