Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- veiled-passage-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 20, King Street, Saddleworth, OL3 5DQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 985 079
- Coordinates
- 53.56771, -2.02348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house that has been converted into a post office, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with two bays and three storeys. The central door is surrounded by a square-cut stone frame and is flanked by 19th-century shop windows, each with two round-headed lights, pierced spandrels, and a cornice supported by foliated consoles. On the first floor, there are two four-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows, and on the second floor, there is a similar twelve-light workshop window. The building has gable stacks and similar windows at the rear.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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