The Old Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Post House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-jade-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post House, Crazies Hill, Wargrave, RG10 8LU
- OS grid reference
- SU 798 806
- Coordinates
- 51.51897, -0.85023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post House is a cottage and house, dating back to the 17th century, with an 18th-century house added later and alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from flint and brick on the south side, and timber frame with plaster infill on the north. The roof is tiled, gabled on the north side, hipped elsewhere, and features a pent-roofed dormer and projecting flank chimneys. The building has an L-shaped layout, with two framed bays on the north side.
The south front features brick and flint construction, a brick plat band, a flint plinth with a brick coping course. It has two 2-light and two single-light 20th-century leaded casement windows on the first floor; the right-hand window is leaded, and replaces a larger older opening, with brick surrounds. The ground floor has four similar 2-light casements, irregular with flat brick arches and brick dressings. A 20th-century entrance door is located under a tiled pent roof supported by plain wood brackets, to the left of centre. The west front has two timber-framed bays at first floor on the left with two 2-light 20th-century leaded casement windows. The brick ground floor incorporates a 20th-century semi-circular bay with a flat roof and a leaded casement window, and a 20th-century garden door to the right. Adjoining this is a brick and flint end wall of the 18th-century house, featuring a large projecting brick chimney and a 2-light 20th-century leaded casement window on the ground floor. The interior reveals a timber frame in the 17th-century portion.
Local climate
The Old Post 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- 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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