The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1991. A C18 Houses and shop. 4 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- high-portal-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1991
- Type
- Houses and shop
- Address
- The Post Office, High Street, Washingborough, LN4 1AZ
- OS grid reference
- TF 019 707
- Coordinates
- 53.2237, -0.47471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a late 18th-century building, originally comprising two houses and a shop, with alterations from the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with pantile roofing and three gable stacks of red brick. The building is two storeys high. The right-hand side features a glazed entrance door with a small wall-mounted post box, alongside a shop window with glazing bars. Further along is a four-panel door, followed by a three-light casement window, a 20th-century door, and a sash window with glazing bars. The upper floor has four sash windows with glazing bars, each with painted stone wedge lintels.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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