Old Cottage Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Cottage.
Old Cottage Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-lintel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage Post Office Cottage, Newport Road, Gayhurst
- OS grid reference
- SP 850 466
- Coordinates
- 52.11177, -0.75971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Cottage and Old Cottage is a terrace of two cottages dating from the 18th century. They are built of rubblestone and feature thatched roofs with three stone and brick chimneys. The cottages are two storeys high and have four first-floor two-light casements that rise slightly into the thatch.
Post Office Cottage, on the left, has two bays with a central door beneath a flat hood supported by posts, and a three-light wood casement window on the right, with a two-light window on the left. Old Cottage, on the right, is similar in style, featuring a six-panelled central door with a flat hood on cut brackets, a five-paned fixed light window on the right, and a two-light casement on the left. The first floor has a small paned casement on the left and leaded glazing on the right.
There is a two-storey extension to the right, constructed of stone with a slate roof, which includes a three-light leaded casement on the first floor, a door on the ground floor, and modern casements on the gable end.
Local climate
Old Cottage Post Office Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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