Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Cottage.
Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-gutter-tarn
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Cottage, Wood Lane, Kidmore End
- OS grid reference
- SU 697 793
- Coordinates
- 51.50909, -0.9965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a plain tile roof, along with a brick end stack on the right side. The main front of the cottage is positioned at right angles to the road and it has two storeys with a three-window range. There is a 20th-century door to the left, which is located under a lean-to on the left return. The cottage has irregularly placed casement windows and brick buttresses on the ground floor. A tiled slope runs between the ground and first floor at the front and right return, and there is an outshut at the rear. Inside, there is a timber spiral staircase, and the timber frame structure is still intact.
Local climate
Post Cottage 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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