Post Office Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House.
Post Office Cottages
- WRENN ID
- proud-corridor-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office Cottages, Main Street, South Moreton
- OS grid reference
- SU 559 882
- Coordinates
- 51.59031, -1.1944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Cottages is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It features large timber framing and rendered infill, topped by a thatched half-hipped roof. There are brick ridge stacks positioned to the left and right of the center. The building is single storey with an attic and has a five-window range that runs at right angles to the street. A 20th-century door is located to the left of the center, while French windows are found to the right of the center. The windows exhibit irregular fenestration with casements, and there are two swept full dormers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Post Office Cottages 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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