The Old Post House and Ladies Hairdresser Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1980. A Early C18 House, hairdresser's premises.

The Old Post House and Ladies Hairdresser Adjoining

WRENN ID
empty-obsidian-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1980
Type
House, hairdresser's premises
OS grid reference
SP 356 195
Coordinates
51.87355, -1.48308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Post House and Ladies' Hairdresser is a house that now serves as both a residence and a hairdressing business. It dates from the early 18th century and has undergone later alterations and an extension on the right side. The building is constructed from coursed square rubble and features a stone slate roof.

The main section has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic. A central half-glazed door is framed by a moulded doorcase. The ground floor has sash windows with glazing bars set beneath cambered arches, while the first floor features sash windows with wooden lintels. There is a central painted date stone, although the date is not legible, which includes an oval tablet with recessed spandrels, resembling a similar feature at Heathfield in Brown's Lane. A hipped dormer on the roof has horizontal sliding sashes.

At either end of the building, there are chimneys, with the left one being a ridge stack finished in rendered brick. The extension to the right includes a half-glazed door, a recessed shop front, one first-floor sash window with glazing bars, and a smaller blocked window with a timber lintel.

Local climate

The Old Post House and Ladies Hairdresser Adjoining 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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