The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. House.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- waning-transept-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Post Office, High Street, Reach
- OS grid reference
- TL 565 662
- Coordinates
- 52.27203, 0.29369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of painted local brick and features a modern plain tile roof with a large square ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and has a two-unit plan, although the original lobby entry has been blocked. There is a dentil brick eaves cornice, and on the first floor, there are two twelve-paned hung sash windows in flush wooden frames, along with two similar but larger windows on the ground floor. A brick plinth supports the structure. The main entrance is located in a modern shop to the east. Inside, there are two inglenook hearths and a hearth over the parlour on the first floor. The interior also showcases exposed floor frames and chamfered axial beams.
Local climate
The Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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