The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Post Office

WRENN ID
broken-stronghold-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1989
Type
House
Address
The Old Post Office, 32, Main Street, Smeeton Westerby, LE8 0QJ
OS grid reference
SP 680 929
Coordinates
52.5302, -0.999
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Post Office is an 18th-century house with 20th-century additions, constructed from brick and ironstone. It features a graded Swithland slate roof with gable stacks and a ridge stack. The west front has two storeys and four bays. The base has a rubble-stone plinth with brick set-offs in the two bays to the right of the doorway. There is a moulded eaves cornice in these two bays, while the two bays to the left have an unmoulded cornice. The off-centre doorway has a frame with brackets and a four-panel door. To the left of the doorway is a three-light sliding sash window with a cambered arch, and to the right are similar windows with gauged brick cambered arches. In the fourth bay to the right, there is part of a segmental arch cellar window opening in the plinth. Above, there are three two-light sliding sash windows. Adjoining to the south is a two-storey 20th-century range that has two reset tiles in its west gable end wall, both inscribed; the lower tile reads "IC Sep 24, 1731" and the one above reads "I*B 1731."

Local climate

The Old Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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