The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1976. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- twisted-railing-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 5, Wharf Road, Warborough
- OS grid reference
- SU 594 927
- Coordinates
- 51.63043, -1.14211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is an 18th-century house located on Warborough Wharf Road in Shillingford. It is constructed of coursed clunch rubble with brick dressings and has an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The building is designed in an L-plan and stands two storeys high. The front facing the road is irregular, featuring three later inserted 3-light casements at the ground floor and two 2-light casements at the first floor. To the left, there are large 20th-century garage doors. The roof is hipped on the right side and half-hipped on the left.
The main range, which projects to the rear, has a two-window front that faces left. It includes a central six-panel door flanked by tall windows with gauged-brick flat arches, set in two-storey brick panels. There is an inserted third window at the first floor and a storey band. A stepped brick plinth and a dentil eaves course are repeated on the road front. The right side of the rear range features a full-width out shut. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Post Office 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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