The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1986. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fallow-rotunda-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, High Street, East Ilsley, RG20 7LF
- OS grid reference
- SU 492 811
- Coordinates
- 51.5268, -1.29131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century addition and 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of render and brick, grey in colour, with red dressings and tiled roofs. The house has a double pile plan. It is two storeys and an attic, with a parapet and cornice on the east elevation, and flanking chimneys to each roof range.
The east elevation features two coupled glazing bar sashes on the first floor, and three large, irregularly spaced 20th-century windows on the ground floor. The entrance is located in an adjoining 19th-century cottage. The west elevation has four glazing bar sashes, with exposed box frames and cambered heads; a tripartite sash is to the left of the ground floor, and a 20th-century casement to the right.
Inside, a dogleg staircase with turned balusters is situated in the hall between the two ranges of the house. Moulded and raised and fielded panelling, with cornices, is found in the front north and rear south ground floor rooms.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2016
- 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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