Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A Circa 1700 House/Post Office.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- frozen-quoin-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House/Post Office
- Address
- Post Office, 206, High Street, Elstow
- OS grid reference
- TL 049 475
- Coordinates
- 52.11641, -0.46889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house that dates from around 1700 and currently serves as a Post Office. It features a pebbledash render over a timber frame and has a clay tile roof, with fishscale tiles on the lower block. The main block is two storeys high and has a two-room plan, with a one-storey block to the north that houses the Post Office. The main block has two five-light casement windows on the ground floor, and one three-light and one two-light casement window on the first floor, all with leaded lights. There is a plank door on the left-hand side. The building has a red brick integral stack at the south gable end and a later red brick external stack at the north gable end. The Post Office section has a 20th-century door and window.
Local climate
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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