Clock House Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House, post office.
Clock House Post Office
- WRENN ID
- half-minaret-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Clock House Post Office, High Street, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 137 439
- Coordinates
- 52.08188, -0.3407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clock House and Post Office is a house with adjoining stables that have been converted into a Post Office and shop. It dates from the later 19th century and is constructed of red brick with a clay tile roof. The building is L-shaped, consisting of one storey and attics, with the northeast wing originally serving as the stable block.
The southwest elevation features a variety of cast iron lattice casements and includes a part-glazed door to the right, which is sheltered by a sloping hood supported on curved braces. The road-facing gable end has two ground floor windows with glazing bars set under cambered heads, and an attic clock face with a moulded dripstone.
The northeast and northwest elevations have bay windows on the ground floor, all of which are 20th-century insertions, as well as gabled dormers with cast iron lattice casements. The southwest block is topped with a square louvred bell-cote that has a pyramidal roof and a weathervane.
Local climate
Clock House 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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