The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1953. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- eternal-mantel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Runtley Wood Lane, GU4 7QD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 007 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28159, -0.55729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick plinth with brick infill, and has a plain tiled roof adorned with fishscale tile hanging on the left-hand gable end. The building is two storeys high and consists of four framed bays, with casement windows throughout. A 20th-century ribbed and studded door is located in a projecting brick porch to the left of the centre, leading to the lobby entrance. The right side of the building reveals an exposed crown post and corner bracing. At the rear, there is a weatherboard catslide.
Local climate
The Old Post Office 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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