The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- keen-footing-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Rectory Lane, Kingston, CB23 2NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 346 552
- Coordinates
- 52.17948, -0.03281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage built around 1800, with an extension added around 1840. It features a timber frame, is plaster rendered, and has a thatched roof. The building has a renewed stack at the east end and faces the road. It is two storeys high, with two casement windows on the first floor and two more on the ground floor, positioned on either side of the doorway. The 1840 addition at the rear is also timber framed, rendered, and has a pantiled roof, with an end stack and three casement windows on each of its two storeys.
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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