Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. Former post office. 3 related planning applications.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Former post office
- Address
- Old Post Office, Bath Road, Woolhampton, RG7 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SU 573 667
- Coordinates
- 51.39725, -1.17768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a mid-18th century building, originally a post office and now a shop. It is constructed of painted brick with a plat band marking the level of the first-floor window sills. A prominent feature is a central, first-floor arch, which is blank and has a raised architrave, impost blocks, and a keystone. The roof is gabled to the front and has a stack on the right side. The building is two storeys high, with three bays. The first floor has glazing bar sashes. A central boarded door is flanked by large, 20th-century shop windows.
Local climate
Old Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 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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