The Post House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House and post office. 10 related planning applications.
The Post House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-foundation-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House and post office
- Address
- The Post House, Village Street, Filkins and Broughton Poggs, GL7 3HU
- OS grid reference
- SP 238 043
- Coordinates
- 51.73732, -1.65559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post House is a house and post office located in Filkins, dated 1741 on a shaped tablet at the center. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with raised ashlar quoins and features a stone slate roof with flat stone gable copings. The building has flanking chimneys, with the right chimney made of ashlar and featuring a moulded cornice, while the left chimney has been rebuilt in brick. The structure is two storeys high with an attic and consists of two bays.
The windows on the upper floor are two-light with chamfered stone mullions and 20th-century metal glazing bars. The ground floor of the right bay has been altered to include a 19th-century canted wooden shop window set on an ashlar base. There are two gabled roof dormers with 20th-century two-light wooden casements. The central entrance is a 20th-century half-glazed door within a raised and chamfered stone surround. There are traces of a blocked doorway in the right gable end facing the road.
At the rear, the building features three-pane sashes on the ground floor and 20th-century metal casements above. Attached to the left gable end is a single-storey former outbuilding that has been incorporated into the house, along with 20th-century extensions that are not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
The Post House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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