The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1985. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- waiting-brass-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Church Street, Hemswell
- OS grid reference
- SK 928 909
- Coordinates
- 53.40685, -0.60428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a pantile roof with a single gable stack and dentillated eaves. The building has a two-storey, four-bay front. To the left, there is a doorway with a segmental head and a panelled door. There is a single three-light sliding sash window to the left of the door, and two similar windows to the right. On the upper floor, there are four sliding sash windows, with the one above the doorway having two lights, while the others have three lights. All the windows are topped with splayed brick lintels and segmental heads.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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