Post Office, Number 26 and Number 27 is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1984. Post office, cottages.
Post Office, Number 26 and Number 27
- WRENN ID
- eternal-window-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1984
- Type
- Post office, cottages
- Address
- Post Office, Number 26 and Number 27, Crown Lane, Tinwell
- OS grid reference
- TF 005 063
- Coordinates
- 52.6459, -0.51551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, originally a forge, and cottages at numbers 26 and 27 were built in 1848. They are constructed of coursed squared stone and feature a steeply pitched Collyweston stone slate roof with moulded stone ridge stacks. The building has a consciously picturesque appearance and is 1½ storeys high with a four-window range arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern.
At either end of the building are coped gabled projections with decorative kneelers. The left projection has a 4-centred arched entrance framed by a colossal carved horseshoe, along with a 2-light casement window and a blank shield above. The right projection features a 3-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, complete with a hood mould shaped like a giant ribbon, and a 2-light casement window with a shield displaying the Exeter logo above.
The two projections are connected by an arcade of 4-centred arches, which steps up in the center to incorporate a datestone. The entrance to number 26 is located within two steeply-pitched gabled dormers above, while the entrance to number 27 is found within a one-storey gabled projection to the north. The north front includes a two-storey projection with a datestone, and the one-storey projection to the south has a massive stack at the rear, a plank door in a plain architrave, and a shuttered 2-light window.
Local climate
Post Office, Number 26 and Number 27 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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