The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1988. A C15 Post office. 4 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- iron-corridor-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1988
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Post Office, the Street, Waltham St. Lawrence, RG10 0JJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 830 767
- Coordinates
- 51.48342, -0.80566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a hall house that now serves as a post office, shop, and small house. It dates from the early 15th century, was extended in the 18th century, and underwent alterations and further extensions in the late 20th century. The building features part timber framing encased in render and brick, as well as sections of brick. It has an old tile gabled roof, with a lower rear roof. Originally, it had a rectangular plan of three bays with the gable facing the street, but it has since been modified to a T-plan with an extension at the front and another extension on the side. The structure is two storeys and one and a half storeys high, with two chimneys—one on the left gable and one at the rear, both topped with clay pots.
The front of the building facing the road has two bays and features casement windows with glazing bars and segmental heads. The entrance door, which has six panels, has been moved from the center to the right and is now sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch supported by wooden posts. The right side extension has a parapet, a half-glazed door, and a 20th-century shop window. There is an inscription incised into the bricks under the eaves in the center that reads "1727" I M.
Inside, the rear section reveals exposed timber framing, with curved braces and a centre chamfered scissor-braced collar roof truss.
Local climate
The Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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