Old Post Office and Attached Reading Room/Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1997. House, reading room, institute.
Old Post Office and Attached Reading Room/Institute
- WRENN ID
- moated-threshold-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1997
- Type
- House, reading room, institute
- Address
- Old Post Office and Attached Reading Room/Institute, 40, Church Street, Hampton Lucy
- OS grid reference
- SP 255 570
- Coordinates
- 52.2109, -1.6282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office and attached Reading Room/Institute is a house and institute built around 1840. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features tile roofs with brick stacks.
The house is a single-storey building with an attic and has a three-window range. There is a gabled forward break to the left of center, wide eaves, and decorative bargeboards with finials. The segmental-headed openings are single-chamfered. The entrance to the forward break has a battened door with strap hinges and a bracketed gabled canopy. To the right, there is a canted bay window with a hipped roof over three lattice-glazed lights. A carriage entrance at the right end has a label mould raised over a blank ashlar panel, leading to projecting 20th-century garage doors. The window on the ground floor left end features a label mould over a two-light casement with lattice glazing. The first floor has similar casements in the gable and gabled half dormer on each side. There is a cross-axial stack with two diagonal shafts.
The institute portion is also a single-storey building with a three-window range, and it has a later range attached to the rear at right angles, featuring a re-entrant porch. The front range has a plain plinth and three segmental-headed, single-chamfered windows with stone sills, label moulds, and two-light frames. There is a lateral stack to the rear with two shafts, and the right return has a similar, taller window. The porch has a stone-coped parapet and a straight-headed entrance with a plank door and return light with a label. The rear range has offset buttresses between windows with small-paned lights above inserted 20th-century casements.
The building was constructed by the Lucy family for the use of the villagers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old Post Office and Attached Reading Room/Institute receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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