Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage, shop.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fossil-banister-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- Post Office, 47, High Street, Meldreth
- OS grid reference
- TL 376 459
- Coordinates
- 52.09497, 0.00764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a cottage that has been converted into a house and shop, dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with a rendered exterior and a steeply pitched roof, which is now covered with slates. A ridge stack made of red brick is present. The building has a three-bay plan, with the end facing the road. There is a modern oriel window above the shop front, and the east wall includes two windows on the first floor and two windows along with a door on the ground floor, all of which are from the late 20th century. The plinth has been rebuilt and the ground floor has been lowered, but the ceiling, wall frame, and roof from the 17th century remain intact inside.
Local climate
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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
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