Post Office House is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Post Office, house. 6 related planning applications.
Post Office House
- WRENN ID
- grey-finial-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Post Office, house
- Address
- Post Office House, Dunham Road, Warburton, WA13 9UZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 709 893
- Coordinates
- 53.39977, -2.43832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A post office, later converted into a house, dating to circa 1893 and designed by John Douglas. The building is constructed of English garden wall bond brick with terracotta dressings and a clay tile roof. It has an asymmetrical L-shaped plan extending over two storeys and includes a porch. The facade is arranged in three bays with a decorative brickwork band at first floor level, overhanging eaves, and a steeply pitched roof featuring two prominent gable stacks. A three-light window with a flattened ogee head is present in the first bay, while a similar four-light window, also with a transom, is located in the third bay, which projects as a wing. All windows are detailed in terracotta, with the first-floor windows retaining leaded lights. The timber-framed porch in the second bay has a pitched roof. The first floor features decorative lozenge panels in brick and painted render to the first bay, and to the gable of the third bay. Bays 2 and 3 have two- and three-light mullion windows similar to those described above.
Local climate
Post Office House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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