The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House and shop. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ghost-lead-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 2, Fowlmere Road, Heydon, SG8 8TH
- OS grid reference
- TL 432 400
- Coordinates
- 52.04053, 0.08678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century house and shop, later altered in the early 19th century and subsequently. It is now a house. The building is constructed of red brick with burnt brick headers, and has a plain tiled roof with a central ridge stack. It is two storeys high, with later brick gable lean-tos on either side. A 20th-century six-panelled glazed door, with a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets, now occupies the position of two original doorways, which were originally accessed by cambered brick arches. A large fixed-light transomed shop window is present, topped with a wooden cornice. A three-light casement window sits to the left, and two similar windows are on the first floor. A lean-to on the right-hand side interrupts an earlier garden boundary wall featuring diaper pattern work. Inside, there is some exposed 17th-century timber framing.
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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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