The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1965. Post office. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- waiting-mantel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1965
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Main Street, Cropthorne, WR10 3LT
- OS grid reference
- SO 999 450
- Coordinates
- 52.10356, -2.00222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a building dating from around 1600, constructed with a timber frame and plaster. It is a single-storey structure with attics, featuring modern casement windows. The building has two ledged doors, one of which is topped with a weather hood. Its thatched roof has eaves that rise over the upper windows. The Old Post Office is part of a group that includes The Manor and Manor Cottage.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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