The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- buried-pediment-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 1, High Street, Great Easton
- OS grid reference
- SP 849 929
- Coordinates
- 52.52796, -0.74945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the late 17th or 18th century, located on the west side of High Street in Great Easton. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins and features a thatched roof with brick end stacks. The gables are stone-coped with kneelers. The building has a cross wing on the left with a gable facing the street.
It stands two storeys high and has two sets of 2-light casements, with a tiny 1-light window to the left and a tiny 2-light window to the right. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a tiny 1-light window in a moulded stone frame, a 1-light casement, a gabled wooden porch, a four-panelled door, and a 20th-century bow window. The right end gable is made of red brick. On the left side of the cross wing, there are two centre-opening 3-light windows with similar eyebrow dormers above.
Local climate
The Old Post Office 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 81% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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