Old Posting House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Old Posting House
- WRENN ID
- winter-flagstone-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Posting House, Hogmoor Lane, St. Nicholas, Hurst, RG10 0DH
- OS grid reference
- SU 797 740
- Coordinates
- 51.45952, -0.85354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Posting House is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 18th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick infilling and an old tiled roof that is gabled at both ends. The building has a T-plan layout, with a single-storey range of late 18th-century outbuildings positioned at right angles to the road front on the left side. These outbuildings have thin framing and a roof that is part slate and part tile.
The road front of the cottage is two storeys high and consists of two timber-framed bays. The left bay includes two arch braces, one three-light 20th-century casement window, and an insurance plaque on the first floor. The ground floor has a two-light 19th-century wooden casement window with small panes, and there is a chimney on the left side of the east gable. A 19th-century entrance door is located in a lean-to porch at the corner where the extension joins the main building. The right bay features a large painted brick chimney that tapers at the first-floor level into a single flue. Inside, the complete timber frame is visible, with the joists in the principal rooms being chamfered with stop ends.
Local climate
Old Posting House 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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