119, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1970. Former post office.

119, High Street

WRENN ID
fossil-bonework-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Telford and Wrekin
Constituency
The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 August 1970
Type
Former post office
Address
119, High Street, Newport
OS grid reference
SJ 744 192
Coordinates
52.77021, -2.38082
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 119 on High Street is an early 19th-century building that was formerly the General Post Office. It is constructed of painted brick and has three storeys with three sash windows. The ground floor features moulded wood pilasters that support a dentilled cornice. On the left side, there is a prominent rectangular bay window, along with a doorway that has a plain rectangular fanlight and a six-panelled divided door. The building has plain eaves and is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

119, High Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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