St Andrews Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Post office. 6 related planning applications.
St Andrews Post Office
- WRENN ID
- north-passage-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- St Andrews Post Office, 8, St James's Street, BA1 2TW
- OS grid reference
- ST 744 655
- Coordinates
- 51.3884, -2.36796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a post office with residential accommodation above, built around 1790 to 1793. It was designed by John Palmer as part of the unfinished St James's Square development, on land leased from Sir Peter Rivers Gay. It stands on St James's Street, one of four diagonal routes leading to St James's Square, and is an example of Picturesque landscape principles applied to urban design.
The front of the building is limestone ashlar, painted up to the first floor sill band. The rear is a mix of ashlar and rubble, under an artificial slate, double-pile mansard roof. The roof features a coped party wall to the left, with two rebuilt stacks in brick and ashlar. A rear staircase is present.
The building is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The first floor has three grouped plate glass sash windows with horns, set in splayed reveals and featuring a continuous wrought iron balconette. The second floor has similar windows in plain reveals, with a continuous stone sill. The ground floor has a large 20th-century plate glass window to the left and a door to the right. The door has two flush, two fielded panels, a single glazed panel, and a pennant step, all within a pedimented Doric doorcase with Doric pilasters. A double dormer window is present in the roof. A plinth, band course above the ground floor, and a sill band running continuously with the adjacent No.38 St James’s Square are also visible. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a coped parapet. Two basement window openings are evident, now infilled with glass bricks. The rear elevation features plate glass sashes and 20th-century windows.
The interior has not been inspected. Historical records from Bath City Archives detail the property's land title and maps, documenting its connection to the St James's Square development.
Local climate
St Andrews Post Office receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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