The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- tall-gargoyle-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, 20, Church Street, West Lavington, SN10 4LD
- OS grid reference
- SU 006 529
- Coordinates
- 51.27612, -1.99162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, located on Church Street in West Lavington. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and cellar, comprising four bays. The entrance is a six-panelled door with an architrave, accessed by three steps, located in the second bay, with a secondary door in the fourth bay on the right. The ground floor has three-light timber casement windows, while the upper floor features 2-light inset hollow chamfered stone windows. There is a moulded string course along the building. To the left, there is a lean-to extension and a gable stack. The rear wall has been heightened, and a rear stack has been added. Inside, the building has chamfered spine beams. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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