The Old Post House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. House.
The Old Post House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-barrel-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post House, Ipsden
- OS grid reference
- SU 635 853
- Coordinates
- 51.5635, -1.08484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post House is a 17th-century house that was encased in 1777, as indicated by a date on the brickwork on the left side of the ground floor. It is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings and features a plain tile hipped roof. The house has a lobby entry plan and is a single storey with an attic, presenting a two-window range. There are three 12-pane casements from the 20th century, along with two segmental-headed half-dormers that also have 12-pane casements from the 20th century. A 20th-century door is located on the right return. The eaves are adorned with a dentil cornice, and there are ridge stacks on the left and right returns. Inside, the original fireplaces can be found on the ground floor to the right, and there are chamfered spine beams with ogee end stops in the same area.
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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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