Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Post office. 1 related planning application.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- north-bonework-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 37, Market Place, Olney, MK46 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 889 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15252, -0.70185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a late 18th-century Post Office located on the south side of Olney Market Place. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a shallow pitched slate roof with wide moulded verges at the gables and brick chimney stacks. The facade includes a central triangular pediment that contains a segmental arch with a keystone. There is a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The building has three storeys, with a stone first floor band. The central segmental arch is framed by a wide architrave that breaks into the floor band.
On the ground floor, there are three windows on each side, fitted with modern plate glass in the original openings. The first floor has five windows arranged in a 1:2:2 pattern, while the second floor features three barred double-hung sash windows. All windows are set in plain stone architraves with keystones and moulded cills. The gable facing High Street South is made of rubblestone, and there is a two-storey rear wing that includes one large sash window on the ground floor, a carriage entry next to No 26, and two sash windows on the first floor.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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