Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House, shop. 5 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- white-mortar-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Post Office, 58, Hambleden, RG9 6RT
- OS grid reference
- SU 783 865
- Coordinates
- 51.57215, -0.87048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house and shop, known as the Post Office, which may date back to the 16th century but was rebuilt in the early to mid-18th century and has undergone alterations. It is constructed of flint with narrow brick dressings, featuring a first-floor band course, an offset plinth, and a plain tile roof with rebuilt brick chimneys on either side. The building has an L-plan layout and consists of one storey and an attic with two bays.
The ground floor has 20th-century paired barred wooden casements on the right and three gabled eaves-line dormers. There is a 20th-century projecting shop front to the left and a central 19th-century half-glazed door with a stop-chamfered frame. The openings on the left side of the ground floor have segmental heads. A post box is set into the wall to the right of the door, and there is a door leading to a telephone box in the left gable. A small lean-to structure is present at the angle with the rear wing.
Inside, the building features heavy curved principal trusses set into the wall at tie beam level and very heavy floor joists in the rear wing.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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