The Mail House is a Grade II listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. Shop with domestic accommodation. 1 related planning application.
The Mail House
- WRENN ID
- floating-cobalt-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bassetlaw
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1952
- Type
- Shop with domestic accommodation
- Address
- The Mail House, 1 and 3, Eldon Street, Tuxford
- OS grid reference
- SK 735 710
- Coordinates
- 53.23115, -0.8991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mail House is a shop with domestic accommodation, originally listed as The Mail Hotel. It features a front dating from the mid-18th century, with late 19th-century additions. The building is constructed of colour washed brick and has a slate roof, with two red brick ridge stacks and a wooden cornice. It is set on a plinth and has two storeys plus an attic, comprising six bays.
The façade includes a doorway with a glazing bar and panelled double doors, framed by a Greek Doric porch. On either side of the entrance are single 19th-century canted bays, each containing three glazing bar sashes. To the left, there is a round arched carriageway, and to the right, a single glazing bar sash is present, along with a blocked doorway at the far right. Above the entrance, there are five glazing bar sashes, with the rightmost being lower and narrower, and the leftmost also narrower. In the attic, there are two box dormers; the left has a single glazing bar sash, while the right features a single 20th-century glazing bar casement. At the rear, there are 19th-century two-storey extensions.
Local climate
The Mail House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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