Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1961. House, post office.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- long-pilaster-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1961
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Old Post Office, Market Place, Ollerton and Boughton
- OS grid reference
- SK 653 673
- Coordinates
- 53.19925, -1.02318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the early 18th century, which has been used as a Post Office since the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick and features a 20th-century pantile roof. The building has a first-floor band, coped gables with kneelers, and two gable stacks, one of which projects to the west. It is two storeys high with garrets and consists of four bays.
The windows are glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick heads. On the front, to the left, there is a tiny sash window, and to its right, an early 19th-century shop front that includes a central half-glazed door with an overlight and a blank fanlight, flanked by two large sashes with elliptical fanlight heads. The shop front is supported by four timber pilasters and features a dentillated cornice. To the right, there are two additional sash windows, and above, there are four more sashes. The east gable has a mullioned casement window in the garret.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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