The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- low-garret-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 4, High Street, Babraham
- OS grid reference
- TL 513 503
- Coordinates
- 52.13103, 0.20923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of flint rubble with gault brick rusticated quoins and dressings, featuring end stacks and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and cellars, with a symmetrical three-bay facade. The entrance consists of a recessed six-panelled door set within a segmental brick arch, flanked by two sixteen-paned windows on the ground floor, which also have similar arches above them. On the first floor, there are three twelve-paned windows.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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