Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1952. Post office. 7 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- stark-window-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1952
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 4, Market Square, Witney, OX28 6HN
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 097
- Coordinates
- 51.78527, -1.48576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house that has been converted into a Post Office, dating from around 1750, with 20th-century internal alterations. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a gabled stone-coped roof made of stone slate, with concrete tiles and artificial stone slates at the rear. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in a mid-Georgian style, standing two storeys high with a symmetrical five-window range. The central bays are pedimented and include a lunette in the tympanum. All windows are fitted with mid-19th century plate-glass sashes. There is a Venetian window above a Venetian doorway that has a 20th-century door. The windows are adorned with raised beaded architraves and triple keyblocks. A dentilled cornice runs beneath the pediment and there is a parapet above. The building also features two hipped roof dormers. At the rear, there is a similar one-bay wing that has comparable architraves to two tripartite sashes. The first floor interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Post Office 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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