Old Post Office Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Cottage.
Old Post Office Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-baluster-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Post Office Thatched Cottage, Long Itchington
- OS grid reference
- SP 404 636
- Coordinates
- 52.26952, -1.4093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Post Office Thatched Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that features a timber frame with brick infill and a thatched roof, which has a brick stack at one end. The building is one storey plus an attic and has a two-window range. On the ground floor, there is a 19th-century two-light casement window to the right and a smaller casement window to the left. In the attic, there is a 20th-century casement window set in an eyebrow dormer, along with a 20th-century French door in the center. At the rear, there are two additional 19th-century two-light casements, one on the ground floor and one in an eyebrow dormer. Inside, the cottage features a chamfered spine beam and an open fireplace.
Local climate
Old Post Office Thatched Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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