Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Cottage.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- slow-bronze-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Post Office, Bishops Cannings
- OS grid reference
- SU 049 633
- Coordinates
- 51.36924, -1.93029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage dating from the late 16th to early 17th century. It features a timber frame resting on a stone sill, with whitewashed wattle and daub and brick infilling, topped by a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of two bays, which include a heated hall and a narrower service bay located at the rear of the stack. The framing has two panels high and includes ogee corner braces at the front. There is a boarded door leading to the service bay, which has a pent tiled roof. The cottage has canted ovolo moulded windows supported by single brackets and tiled roofs, featuring diamond leading in both the hall and the chamber above. The roof is quarter-hipped on the left side and hipped over the service bay, with a single flue brick stack. There are lean-to outbuildings from the 19th and 20th centuries at the rear.
Local climate
Old Post Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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