The Old Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Hart local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Post house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post House
- WRENN ID
- floating-tin-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hart
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1987
- Type
- Post house
- Address
- The Old Post House, Holdshot Road, Heckfield, RG27 0JY
- OS grid reference
- SU 732 607
- Coordinates
- 51.34084, -0.94914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post House is a 17th-century building that has been modernized. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The roof is covered with red tiles and has a large chimney stack. The upper walls are timber-framed with brick infill, arranged in English bond, while the east gable is weatherboarded. The windows are casements. There is a Victorian solid porch with decorative barge-boards on the gable. On the west side, there is a large bay with a curved window supported by brackets, topped with a hipped tile roof.
Local climate
The Old Post House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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