The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1986. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- upper-pinnacle-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Old Post Office, High Street, Fowlmere, SG8 7SU
- OS grid reference
- TL 423 459
- Coordinates
- 52.09376, 0.07581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house and shop dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a gault brick facade, with a timber frame that is plastered at the rear and on the gable ends. The roof is covered with asbestos tiles, and there are red brick ridge stacks located to the left of center and on the right side. The building is two storeys high and has a three-unit plan. The shop is on the left side, with a four-panelled glazed door and a bowed shop window that has glazing bars. There is a six-panelled 18th-century house door located in the lobby entry position. To the right, there are two three-light casement windows set in recessed segmental brick arches, and on the first floor, there are three similar windows. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Old 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 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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