Head Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1981. Post office. 3 related planning applications.
Head Post Office
- WRENN ID
- old-floor-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen MP: Darren Paffey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Head Post Office, 57 and 58, High Street, City of Southampton, SO14 2AX
- OS grid reference
- SU 420 112
- Coordinates
- 50.89881, -1.40358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Head Post Office, located on the High Street, was built in 1894 in the Flemish style. It is a three-story building with attics, constructed of red brick with terra cotta detailing. The roof is slate-covered and features three elaborate pediments with shell moulding, as well as a modillion cornice with a frieze. The first and second floors have five mullioned and transomed casement windows. The ground floor features round-headed windows, and a projecting, pedimented porch on the left-hand side, supported by console brackets. The pediment incorporates a crown motif. Beneath the main building lies a 14th-century vault, designated as a scheduled ancient monument.
Local climate
Head Post Office receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 17 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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