General Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Derby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1977. Post office. 10 related planning applications.
General Post Office
- WRENN ID
- waiting-clay-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derby
- Constituency
- Derby South MP: Baggy Shanker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1977
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- General Post Office, Victoria Street, City of Derby, DE1 1DD
- OS grid reference
- SK 351 362
- Coordinates
- 52.92215, -1.47841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Post Office, built around 1869, is a three-storey stone building designed in the Renaissance style. It features seven sash windows without glazing bars, set in moulded architraves with pediments supported by consoles, and panels of balusters below. A sill band is present at the second storey, and there is a moulded cornice at the first floor that breaks forward at the centre and ends, supported by lion-head brackets. The ground storey is rusticated and includes a Greek Key frieze. The central doorway has a plain rectangular fanlight above a six-panelled door. Additional architectural details include a plain frieze, a dentilled modillion eaves cornice, and an open balustrade. The building has a three-window return side facing St James's Street, which includes a two-storeyed wing with five windows on the left-hand side.
Local climate
General Post Office receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 10 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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