The Old Post House is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-jamb-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post House, Worplesdon Road, GU3 3RD
- OS grid reference
- SU 971 537
- Coordinates
- 51.27463, -0.60935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post House is a 17th-century house with 20th-century extensions projecting to the left. The house was originally timber framed and has been refronted in brick to the right, with a brown brick extension to the left. It has plain tiled roofs, half-hipped to the right and taller to the left. The house is one storey and attic to the right, and two storeys to the left. A decorated ridge stack with string courses is located to the left of centre on the right-hand range, and a plain ridge stack is located to the left. A plat band runs over the ground floor, featuring dentilled eaves on the right. The front of the house is irregular, with two diamond-pane leaded casement windows under an eaves gable to the right and two ground floor windows with cambered heads. A central, narrow, square bay window with a hipped roof is situated on the ground floor.
The left-hand wing projects, featuring a single 4-light eaves casement window and a 2-light window on the ground floor. A planked door is located in the re-entrant angle of the ranges. A hipped roof brick porch with a glazed outer door stands nearby. A single-storey imitation timber-framed extension is present to the left. The original timber frame is exposed to the sides and rear of the building.
Local climate
The Old Post House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- 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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