Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. House. 6 related planning applications.
Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-gravel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Cottage, 17, Stocks Road, Aldbury, HP23 5RT
- OS grid reference
- SP 964 125
- Coordinates
- 51.80295, -0.60213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Post Cottage is a house dating to circa 1810, and known to have been used as a post office by the 1870s. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick headers, with the south gable triangle clad in red tile hanging. The roof is steep, covered with old red tiles, and hipped at the north, with a slate rear wing.
The house is asymmetrical in design, presenting a two-storey, three-window facade to the east. A two-storey rear wing extends to the northwest. The east front features a six-panel door situated between a two-light and a three-light ground floor window. A former wide segmental arched opening, now blocked, is present in the north bay, featuring a canted bay window. Above the arch is a two-light window, and there are three-light windows to the first floor. The windows have flush casements with rectangular leaded glazing and segmental arches to the ground floor. The rear extension has windows with cambered red brick arches.
Local climate
Old Post Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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