The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- final-threshold-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Post Office Lane, Lyndon
- OS grid reference
- SK 908 043
- Coordinates
- 52.629, -0.6591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the 17th to early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone and features a thatched roof with a brick central ridge and end stacks. The building has one and a half storeys and includes casement windows, with two sets of 2-light windows and a 6-panelled door alongside a glazed door. There are three eyebrow dormers above, two of which have 2-light windows, while the third has a 1-light window with a centre-opening 3-light. A massive buttress with quoins is located between the doors, and the structure is finished with wooden lintels.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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