The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 2000. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Main Street, Long Marston, CV37 8RG
- OS grid reference
- SP 153 486
- Coordinates
- 52.13584, -1.77693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house, originally built in the 17th century and altered in the 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It is constructed of brick with some timber-frame elements, and has a thatched roof with plastered brick end stacks. The building has a two-unit plan, with a single-storey addition to the right return.
The exterior is single-storey with an attic, featuring a three-window range. The central entrance has a gabled brick porch with a 20th-century panelled door. To the left is a window with a segmental head, and to the right, a window with a tile sill and timber lintel, both featuring two-light casements with small panes. The attic has three eyebrow dormers forming a continuous element, each with two-light casements with small panes and iron opening stays.
The right return displays an external brick stack rising through an outshut with thin scantlings and a hipped thatched roof. The left end has a projecting porch with a plank door, one strap hinge, a side light, and a return two-light casement with small panes. The left return shows a partly stone wall with a brick clasping buttress and an offset brick projection below the stack. The rear includes a lean-to outshut, likely against a timber-framed wall. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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