Post Office and Newsagent is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. House, shop.
Post Office and Newsagent
- WRENN ID
- worn-span-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Post Office and Newsagent, Basingstoke Road, Shinfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 715 678
- Coordinates
- 51.40542, -0.97318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Newsagent is a small house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the 18th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of painted brick and features an old tile gabled roof. It has two storeys with flanking chimneys. The front facing the road has brick dentil eaves and two pairs of coupled sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor includes a projecting shopfront from the 19th century, which has been altered in the 20th century, and features a pent roof.
Local climate
Post Office and Newsagent receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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