Post Office Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Post Office Farm
- WRENN ID
- dim-tracery-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Post Office Farm, Rendcomb, GL7 7EY
- OS grid reference
- SP 016 094
- Coordinates
- 51.7839, -1.97695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Farm is a former farmhouse that was once used as a post office. It dates from the 17th century, with minor extensions likely added in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof, with a stack that was restored in the 20th century and has dressed stone quoins. The main structure is rectangular, with a projection for the stairs and a possible former chimney projection on the north side, where 20th-century extensions have been inserted. There are 18th and 19th-century extensions on the west gable end.
The main body of the farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, along with one-and-a-half and single-storey extensions. On the north front, there is a gabled two-and-a-half storey stairs projection located off-centre to the left, and a similar gabled projection on the far right. The main body features small 20th-century single-light and two-light casements with glazing bars. The right extension has large three-light wooden casements, and there is a two-light hipped roof dormer on the upper floor.
The south front includes a gablet at the upper right, with two large three-light casements on the ground floor, one two-light and two three-light casements on the first floor, and a two-light casement in the gablet. All casements in the main body have horizontal glazing bars, and there is a blocked doorway on the lower left. The successive extensions to the left gable end have two and three-light 20th-century casements with glazing bars, along with a single two-light hipped roof dormer. A gable-end stack is also present.
Inside, the farmhouse features beams with deep flat chamfers and run-out stops, as well as a stone spiral staircase located within the stairs projection.
Local climate
Post Office Farm receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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