The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- vast-obsidian-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Combe, OX29 8NA
- OS grid reference
- SP 413 159
- Coordinates
- 51.84051, -1.40073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled thatch roof with ridge and end stacks made of stone finished in brick. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a five-window range. There are timber lintels above a 20th-century door and early 20th-century two-light casement windows. To the left, there is a mid-19th-century square bay window and a two-storey bay also from the mid-19th century, made of limestone rubble and topped with a late 19th-century tile roof. The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted to have chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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