Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1978. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- broken-brass-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Office, High Street, Maxey, City of Peterborough, PE6 9EE
- OS grid reference
- TF 130 081
- Coordinates
- 52.65906, -0.32999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of High Street in Maxey. It features roughcast stone construction with a thatched roof that has coped gable ends. The building is one storey with an attic and includes a modern bay window and casement on the ground floor, along with a central modern door. There is one eyebrow dormer and brick chimney stacks at each 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 85% 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 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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