Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. House, shop.

Post Office

WRENN ID
third-thatch-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1988
Type
House, shop
Address
Post Office, 31, High Street, Wilburton
OS grid reference
TL 483 748
Coordinates
52.35199, 0.17636
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building at 31 High Street, Wilburton, is a mid to late 18th-century house that has been adapted for use as a post office with a modern ground floor shop. It features narrow, uniform grey brick on the front, with a rendered east gable end wall. The roof is plain tiled and has a west gable stack. There is a simple three-brick eaves cornice and a band between the storeys. The building is two storeys high with an attic and includes two gable dormers. The original first-floor window openings consist of two cross frame casements and a blind window opening, while the ground floor openings have been remodelled to accommodate two modern shop fronts and a doorway. At the rear, there is a stair turret with a parapetted gable, made of similar narrow gault brick. Inside, few original features remain, but the upper three flights and two landings of the staircase are original, featuring a toads-back rail and a square newel, although boarding conceals the balustrade.

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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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