The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1956. Row of cottages.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ghost-mortar-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1956
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- The Post Office, the Green, Great Tew
- OS grid reference
- SP 396 292
- Coordinates
- 51.96077, -1.42493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a row of two cottages and a shop, dating from the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and a remodel in the early 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed marlstone rubble with some ashlar dressings and features thatch roofs with rendered stacks. It has a single-unit plan with an added rear wing and stands one storey plus an attic.
The front of the building includes three-light stone-mullioned windows with labels above the center and right units, and small two-light dormer casements above. The left bay, which serves as the shop, has a large ashlar four-light canted bay window with moulded stone mullions. The doorways between the units have chamfered stone basket-arched surrounds beneath labels, featuring carved lozenge stops. There is also a similar lower door on the extreme left that serves as the shop entrance. Most of the decorative features are likely from the early 19th century, and the windows have lattice glazing.
At the rear of No. 22, there is an 18th-century wing that has renewed windows. The interiors have not been inspected, but No. 23 is noted to have a raised-crick roof structure.
Local climate
The 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 64% 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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