Thornhaugh Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Post office.
Thornhaugh Post Office
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pinnacle-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Thornhaugh Post Office, Russell Hill, City of Peterborough, PE8 6HL
- OS grid reference
- TF 065 005
- Coordinates
- 52.5924, -0.42855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornhaugh Post Office is an estate workers cottage built around 1840-1850. It is constructed from stone rubble and features a steeply pitched Collyweston stone roof with gabled ends. The building stands two storeys high and includes a right-hand gabled semi-dormer. There are two windows on the front, with moulded stone mullion and transom windows: the first floor has two lights, while the ground floor has three lights. The central doorway has a depressed arch and a plank door. Additionally, there are stone end chimney stacks with brick shafts topped with stone caps.
Local climate
Thornhaugh 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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