The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Cottage.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- steep-chamber-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Chester Road, Stoke and Hurleston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 615 565
- Coordinates
- 53.10513, -2.57503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a former village post office that has been converted into a cottage. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features rendered brick and weatherboarding, with a slate roof replacing the original thatch. It is two storeys high and consists of two bays. There is a single-storey lean-to on the north gable and additional single-storey gabled and lean-to structures at the rear. The exterior is mainly rendered with an indented pattern and a whitened finish, while the facade above the first floor is clad in wide elm weatherboarding. The entrance has a ledged and battened door set in a heavy frame. Windows are two-to-three-light flush casements with glazing bars, and there are gable end stacks. Inside, the rear wall and a dividing wall contain timbers, with exposed bevelled beams and ceiling joists visible in two ground floor rooms.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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