The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fallow-gable-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 9-11, Church Road, Wootton, MK43 9EU
- OS grid reference
- TL 005 450
- Coordinates
- 52.09423, -0.5338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a pair of 18th century timber-framed houses, with a 19th century brick extension at the rear. The front is finished in colourwashed pebbledash, with some timber-framing and brick nogging visible at the back, although the eastern end has mostly been rebuilt in brick. The building features an old clay tile roof and stands two storeys high. The facade includes three casement windows with glazing bars on each floor, along with three ground floor doors made of tongued and grooved planks. The rear wing has casement windows that are asymmetrically spaced and have cambered heads. Additionally, there is a single-storey lean-to at the back, constructed of colourwashed brick and topped with a pantiled roof.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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