The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Post Office, cottages. 2 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- burning-remnant-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Post Office, cottages
- Address
- The Post Office, 1 and 3, Old Way, Stogumber, TA4 3SX
- OS grid reference
- ST 095 371
- Coordinates
- 51.12645, -3.29335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a building that may have originally been three cottages, now combined into two, including the Post Office. It dates from the 17th to 18th century and was altered in the 20th century. The exterior is rendered over rubble with thatched roofs and features stone stacks at the gable ends, as well as a lateral stack on the left side of the Post Office wing. The building is arranged in an L-shape on a sloping site, with two cottages facing southwest and a west wing addition that runs parallel to the road, containing the Post Office in its gable end.
The structure has two storeys. The Post Office has a 16-pane sash window in the gable end, and on the ground floor, there is a 20th-century casement window to the left of a half-glazed door, which is topped by a hipped thatched roof and a cantilevered porch. The right return features a long two-bay section, while the left return is obscured by a garage addition. The southwest front includes a higher block with an independent roof on the right, displaying two bays with an arrangement of two-light casements and eyebrow dormers to the left. An arched entrance with a plank door is located between the first and second bays on the right. This building is an important visual feature at the southwest corner of the village, where the road begins to ascend towards the surrounding hills.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- 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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