The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rubble-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Grovely Road, Barford St. Martin, SP3 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SU 057 314
- Coordinates
- 51.08211, -1.91942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a semi-detached cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is built of English bond brick and features a thatched roof with a hip on the left side and a brick chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. The entrance consists of a planked door set in a gabled porch, with a 3-light segmental-headed casement window to the left and a 2-light steel casement window to the right. On the first floor, there is a single light window and a 3-light casement window. To the left of the main structure, there is a single-storey cob extension built on a brick plinth, also beneath a thatched roof. This extension has a 2-light casement window on the ground floor and an eyebrow dormer with a casement window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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