Former Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1976. House. 6 related planning applications.
Former Post Office
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chesterfield
- Constituency
- Chesterfield MP: Mr Toby Perkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Post Office, 1, Market Place, S40 1JW
- OS grid reference
- SK 381 711
- Coordinates
- 53.23579, -1.42986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century house that later served as a post office after 1886. The building is constructed of red brick with prominent brick pilasters, an eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. A pediment, featuring an oeil de boeuf (bullseye window), sits above the slightly projecting central section, which contains three windows. There are a total of five windows, each with sash glazing and flat red brick arches surmounted by keystones and glazing bars. The ground floor has been faced with 20th-century stone.
Local climate
Former Post Office receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 4 transactions since 2017
- 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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