The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- iron-jamb-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Dark Lane, Wingrave with Rowsham, HP22 4PD
- OS grid reference
- SP 869 190
- Coordinates
- 51.86341, -0.7385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a late 18th-century house situated on Dark Lane in Wingrave with Rowsham. The house is constructed of chequer brick with a moulded plinth and eaves, and has an old tile roof with a central brick chimney. It is two storeys and an attic, with two bays. The windows are 19th-century wooden casements; a two-light window is on the left, and a three-light window on the right, with cambered heads to the ground-floor windows. A central entrance features a six-panelled door with a wooden cornice hood supported on cut brackets, and a blind window panel above. The left gable has a four-light leaded casement on the ground floor, and 19th-century wooden casements above: a three-light window to the first floor, and a two-light window to the attic. A later 19th-century brick range with a slate roof, two storeys and four irregular bays, is attached to the north side.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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