The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- distant-spire-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, High Street, Barley, SG8 8JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 399 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02667, 0.03824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the late 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber-framed and has a pargetted panelled rendering. The steeply pitched thatched roof is half-hipped. Brick, flint, and clunch additions are present, with slate and tile roofs. The main block is three bays wide. It has two storeys and a gable end facing the road. The windows are 19th-century flush-moulded frame margin-pane glazed sashes, with exposed plates. A small first-floor casement is in the right return. A multiform ridge stack is situated towards the front. To the left is a 19th-century former post office outshut, single storey, with a panelled door and a three-light 20th-century lattice casement. Similar casements are at the rear, with an entrance in the rear bay of the main block. An outbuilding, also largely of the 19th century, is located at the rear and is primarily of clunch construction and has a tiled roof. Internally, some exposed framing and chamfered bearers are visible.
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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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