Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. Cottage.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- carved-tracery-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Post Office, Staunton on Wye
- OS grid reference
- SO 339 462
- Coordinates
- 52.11051, -2.96628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage that likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with some later alterations. It features a timber frame with plaster and brick infill, and includes a small brick and weatherboarded extension. The roof is made of Welsh slate, and there is a large extruded sandstone rubble stack at the rear with a brick shaft. The building has a rectangular two-bay plan that is aligned north-west to south-east, with a central projection on the south-west side. It is one storey high with an attic.
The north-west elevation has a gable on the left and a low weatherboarded section with a stack on the right. The gable includes one attic window, which is a two-light mid-20th century casement. On the ground floor, there is a three-light casement to the right of the center and a ledged door, likely from the mid-19th century, to the left. The north-east elevation, facing the road, has two mid-20th century casements, each with two lights on the ground floor. The frame consists of three square panels high from the cill to the wall-plate. The interior was inaccessible during the last survey in November 1986. It is noted that the cottage is said to have once served as a post office.
Local climate
Old Post Office receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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