The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Cottage.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- proud-loggia-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Upwell Road, Christchurch, Wisbech, PE14 9PF
- OS grid reference
- TL 493 966
- Coordinates
- 52.54762, 0.20056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage from the early 19th century, positioned with its gable end facing the road. It is constructed of local gault brick and features a pantiled roof, along with parapetted, tumbled gable ends that include end and ridge stacks. The building has three dormers and three 20th-century windows on the ground floor. The doorway, which has a segmental arch, is opposite the stack and includes a boarded door.
Local climate
The Old 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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