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
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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