Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Post office.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- gilded-plinth-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Old Post Office, Mill Lane, Elmley Castle
- OS grid reference
- SO 983 412
- Coordinates
- 52.06918, -2.0252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office, located on Mill Lane in Elmley Castle, is a 17th-century building constructed with a timber frame, plaster, and painted brick on stone foundations. It is a single-storey structure with attics, featuring modern moulded wood oriel windows. The roof is thatched and includes two "eyebrow" dormers. The building has restored moulded stacks at the center and on the side.
Local climate
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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