The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Post Office

WRENN ID
lone-stronghold-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Old Post Office, Hyde Road, Denchworth, OX12 0DP
OS grid reference
SU 381 919
Coordinates
51.62488, -1.44974
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Post Office is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early to mid-17th century and was remodeled in the late 19th century. The building features roughcast over original timber framing above colourwashed late 19th-century brick, with similar brick used on the sides and rear. It has a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The layout consists of three units and the building is two storeys high with a three-window range. There is a 20th-century door flanked by shop windows, and timber lintels over 20th-century casements. The roof is gabled with a stack at the left end. Inside, there is a timber-framed wall that has been plastered over to the right of the door. The right and centre rooms have a full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists. The stack on the left was rebuilt in the late 19th century, during which the original moulded bressumer was reversed and reset. The roof structure includes queen posts with clasped purlins and wattle and daub infill.

Local climate

The Old Post Office receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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