Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- deep-rubblework-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office, Frankby Road, CH48 1PP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 245 867
- Coordinates
- 53.37214, -3.13596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house, formerly used as a post office, dating from 1740. It is constructed of stucco with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. It features two flat bands, 20th-century casement windows, and a 20th-century door. There are two gable-end stacks and a rear outshut. The interior was altered in the 20th century. The building is included in the listing primarily for its group value.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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