The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fallen-plaster-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Alberbury with Cardeston, SY5 9AH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 359 144
- Coordinates
- 52.72416, -2.94985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house that was formerly a post office, dating from the early 18th century with 20th-century alterations and additions. It is constructed of painted brick in Flemish stretcher bond and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a gable-lit attic, with a chamfered plinth, a plat band, a brick eaves cornice with moulded dentils, and a parapeted gable end. There are two brick stacks located on the gabled wing at the rear.
The front of the building has four windows, with wooden cross-casements that are segmental-headed on the ground floor. There is a blocked door situated between the first and second windows from the right. The left-hand cornice was rebuilt in the 20th century. The left-hand return front includes a dentil cornice that continues around at eaves level, a two-light attic window, cross-casements on the first and ground floors, and a 20th-century recessed porch to the left with a glazed door. Additionally, there is a 20th-century addition at the rear that features an external lateral brick stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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