The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1985. Cottage.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- half-cinder-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Wroxeter and Uppington
- OS grid reference
- SJ 563 083
- Coordinates
- 52.67074, -2.64724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with later alterations from the 19th century and additions from the 20th century at the rear. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging and plain tile roofs. The building has a baffle-entry plan consisting of three framed bays, with a flush gabled cross-wing to the left. It is one storey high with an attic and has two 19th-century gabled half-dormers on the right, which contain 3-light leaded casements. A brick stack is located behind the ridge to the right of the center. The framing consists of square panels, three from the sole-plate to the wall-plate. The flush cross-wing on the left has planted timbers over a moulded bressumer and a 2-light leaded casement, along with three windows on the ground floor that include 2- and 3-light leaded casements. There is a 20th-century timber framed gabled porch off-centre to the right, featuring a boarded door. Inside, the cottage is noted for its timber framed cross-walls, and the rest of the interior is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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