Former Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1993. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
Former Post Office
- WRENN ID
- tangled-keystone-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1993
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Former Post Office, 84, Union Street, OL1 1DL
- OS grid reference
- SD 928 048
- Coordinates
- 53.54058, -2.10983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Post Office, now used as a library and offices, was built in 1877. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a shallow pitched Welsh slate roof, showcasing a Neo-classical style. The building is two storeys high and has a seven-window range, with a central entrance framed by a moulded architrave. The windows are two-pane sash types, also with moulded architraves, and are positioned between pilasters. There is an additional doorway to the right that is now disused. A cornice above the ground floor serves as a sill band for the upper two-pane sash windows, which are also set in moulded architraves with entablatures. The building is topped with a stone cornice and parapet that steps over the end and central bays, featuring a shallow pediment above a blind panel in the centre.
Local climate
Former Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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