The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1973. A C18 House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- errant-jamb-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Sydenham
- OS grid reference
- SP 732 018
- Coordinates
- 51.71071, -0.94161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is an 18th-century house located in Sydenham. It is constructed of painted uncoursed stone rubble with brick dressings and features a thatched roof with brick end stacks. The building is single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. There is a 20th-century door in the center, topped with a gabled hood. To the left, there is a two-light casement window with a segmental brick head, and to the right, there is a 20th-century casement window, also with a segmental brick head. The house has two swept dormers, with a two-light casement in the left dormer and a three-light casement in the right dormer. The interior has not been inspected. There is a single-storey addition to the right, which has a thatched hipped roof.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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