Post Office with Two Adjoining Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1952. Shop, cottage.

Post Office with Two Adjoining Cottages

WRENN ID
forbidden-steel-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1952
Type
Shop, cottage
OS grid reference
SU 265 850
Coordinates
51.5639, -1.61873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a post office with two adjoining cottages, dating from the mid to late 18th century. The left side features Flemish bond brickwork, while the right side is constructed from uncoursed chalk and sarsen rubble with chalk bands. The left side has an old tiled roof, and the right side has a thatched roof, both with brick stacks. The left section has a single-unit plan and is a single storey, while the right section has a two-unit plan and is one and a half storeys tall, with a four-window range.

There is a central 20th-century door on the left and another 20th-century door on the left side of the cottage on the right. Late 19th-century canted bay windows flank the door on the left, while the right side has 20th-century casements and a canted bay. The left side wall features an 18th-century canted bay window with a moulded cornice. The left side has dentilled eaves, a half-hipped roof, and a central ridge stack.

Inside, some mutilated beams are exposed, and the two-bay roof on the right is obscured. At the rear left, there is a mid to late 18th-century wing with brick random band walling, a corrugated iron roof, and segmental arches over 20th-century doors and casements.

Local climate

Post Office with Two Adjoining Cottages receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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