Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- peeling-quoin-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office, 53, High Street, Clophill, MK45 4BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 380
- Coordinates
- 52.02994, -0.41719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house that serves as a post office, dating from the 17th century and reworked in the 19th century. It features timber framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render on the front and pebbledash render on the east side. The west gable end was rebuilt in 20th-century brick. The roof is covered with clay tiles. The building has a two-room plan and is one storey high with attics, along with a later two-storey block that projects from the rear, creating an overall L-plan shape.
On the ground floor, there is a wood mullion and transom window on the left-hand side and a projecting rectangular shop front on the right-hand side. The building has two gabled dormers, each with two-light casements. The doorway, aligned with a red brick double ridge stack, features a part-glazed door and a pedimented door hood supported by cut brackets. Above the door, there is a single-light window. The eaves cornice is supported by wood brackets, and there is a red brick integral stack on the left-hand gable end.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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