Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1972. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- under-glass-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1972
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 74, High Street, Newport and Carisbrooke, PO30 1NU
- OS grid reference
- SZ 484 882
- Coordinates
- 50.69186, -1.31568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th and 19th century post office building on the north side of High Street, Carisbrooke. The building is two storeys, constructed with grey stone headers and red brick dressings, with a red brick band separating the ground and first floors. It has a stone rubble plinth and an old tile roof with shallow wood eaves. The roof is gable-ended. The front has three windows, the central one being blind. The windows are sash windows with moulded wooden frames and block sills. The ground floor windows have flat stucco arches. The central entrance has a recessed door consisting of two fielded panels and glazed panels above, topped with a narrow, rectangular fanlight and a moulded wooden architrave. Above the door is a stucco open pediment, topped by a gabled hood with bargeboards and a finial. The building forms a group with numbers 72 to 86 (even).
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 2010
- 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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