Old Post Office Cottages the Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Cottages, post office. 3 related planning applications.
Old Post Office Cottages the Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- waning-arch-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Cottages, post office
- Address
- Old Post Office Cottages the Old Post Office, Itchen Valley, Winchester, SO21 1EF
- OS grid reference
- SU 514 322
- Coordinates
- 51.08698, -1.26739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of cottages, dating to the late 18th century, with a tablet indicating 1834 on “The Old Post Office,” suggesting a possible earlier date. The cottages are constructed of brick with blue headers, partially colourwashed, and have thatched roofs. The row comprises a pair of 2-bay cottages to the left and a 4-bay cottage to the right, arranged in an irregular pattern.
The left cottages each have a 20th-century planked door to one side of the centre, with a small 3-light casement window beside it. The end bays contain 2-light, segmental-headed casement windows. Above, there are eyebrow dormers containing 2-light casements. The 4-bay cottage has a central glazed door, 2-light casement windows to the left, and a 3-light casement at the right end. All windows, except for a small light to the right of the centre door, have segmental heads. The eyebrow dormers above contain 4 casements, and a tablet is positioned above the door.
The roof abuts the taller Bacton Thatch to the left and is half-hipped to the right. Ridge stacks are located above the centre of the pairs of cottages, in the centre of the right cottage, and to the left of the centre of the right cottage.
Local climate
Old Post Office Cottages the Old Post Office receives an average of 800 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 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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