Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Post office. 6 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- peeling-timber-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 1-3, Bridge Street, Wisbech, PE13 1AF
- OS grid reference
- TF 460 096
- Coordinates
- 52.6645, 0.15843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, built in 1887, is designed in the French, Mediaeval Domestic Style. It features red brick with limestone dressings and a slate roof. The main entrance facade faces east and has a west wing with four bays. The building is two storeys tall with an attic. It has parapet gables with end stacks, each topped with linked circular limestone shafts. The facade includes three tall gabled attic windows, flanked by slender buttresses and finials. There is a stone-coped parapet and cornice, a cill band at the first floor, and a stone plinth. The first floor has four windows, while the ground floor has three, with central pairs linked. These windows have flat arched, roll-moulded stone architraves that are rounded at the corners. The entrance on the left side features a half-glazed door set in a stone, crocketed arched doorway, which is linked at the impost to the windows by a stone band. The two-storey wing has two large fanned ground floor windows with stone key blocks and four first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars, along with a parapet.
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 88% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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