The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Former houses. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- tall-alcove-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Former houses
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Oddington, GL56 0UP
- OS grid reference
- SP 232 259
- Coordinates
- 51.93146, -1.66398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building located in Lower Oddington. Originally constructed as two houses, it has since been converted into one. The right-hand house features a circular datestone with the initials R K and the date 1728, positioned between the upper floor windows. The left-hand house dates from the late 18th century, with 20th-century extensions added later. Both sections are built from coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, topped with a concrete tile roof and featuring ashlar and 20th-century brick stacks.
The building has a rectangular plan and is two stories high with a four-windowed facade. The windows include two and three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements, along with two 20th-century stone-mullioned windows flanking a flush 20th-century door that is set back within a flat-arched surround. Floating timber lintels are present over the windows on either side, and the upper floor windows have leaded panes while the ground floor windows feature horizontal glazing bars. To the left, there is a six-panel door with upper lights that are glazed, all within a plain flat-chamfered surround. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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