The Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Post House
- WRENN ID
- other-flue-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Post House, 41, High Street, Datchet, SL3 9EQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 985 768
- Coordinates
- 51.48227, -0.5816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post House is a building located on High Street in Datchet, dating from the early 19th century. Its front is early 19th century, but it likely continues the 16th-century frame of the adjacent Old Bridge House. The structure has two storeys and is roughcast with a high parapet and an old tile hipped roof.
The building features a two-storey, three-bay timber balcony with a flat roof above. The balcony is supported by chamfered posts topped with ball finials and has turned balusters on the first floor. Curved braces with moulded bases support the balcony and return at the ends. Sash windows with glazing bars are present on the wall behind, which is connected to a 17th-century colour-washed brick building at the rear. This rear building is linked to the front by a timber-framed, cement-rendered wing that has an early 19th-century closed porch on the ground floor and two casement windows on the first floor.
The interior has been significantly modernised and altered. The building is included in the heritage listing mainly for its group value with the surrounding structures.
Local climate
The Post House 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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