Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Public room, house.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gutter-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- Public room, house
- Address
- Old Post Office, Main Street, Middle Claydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 721 257
- Coordinates
- 51.92571, -0.95254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a public room, former library, and house, dated 1827 as indicated by a plaque on the right gable. The building features pebble dash over brick, a half-timbered porch, and tiled roofs, with two brick stacks, each having three square shafts set diagonally. It is designed in a picturesque Gothick style and has two storeys.
The north front has five bays, with the outer bays set back. In the center, there is a two-storey projecting gabled porch, with a lean-to on the right. The inner bays are gabled to the front. The windows are irregular, featuring cast iron lattice casements on the ground floor and leaded casements on the first floor. There are two doors in four-centred arched frames, with similarly arched and glazed lights in the upper half. A verandah is present on the left side and at the rear. The building was constructed at the expense of Mr. Abel Smith, who was the son-in-law of Sir Harry Calvert of Claydon House.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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