Snow Hill Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1992. A C18 Post office.
Snow Hill Post Office
- WRENN ID
- wild-cellar-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1992
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Snow Hill Post Office, 29, City of Wolverhampton
- OS grid reference
- SO 915 981
- Coordinates
- 52.58146, -2.126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snow Hill Post Office is a house that has been converted into a post office, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, with the right bay painted. The building features a slate roof and brick stacks, and it stands three storeys tall with a three-window range. The top of the building has a frieze and cornice. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, while the first floor contains windows with rusticated wedge lintels and fluted keys above 12-pane sash windows. The second floor features 9-pane sash windows. There are end stacks on the building. The interior has not been inspected. This post office is part of a surviving row of 18th-century buildings, and the right-hand bay includes an entrance to No. 30.
Local climate
Snow Hill Post Office receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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