The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- last-iron-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Great Marlow, SL7 2JH
- OS grid reference
- SU 832 869
- Coordinates
- 51.57513, -0.79943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a late 18th-century house, altered in subsequent periods. It is constructed of brick with dentil eaves and a hipped roof covered in old tiles. Brick chimneys flank the building. The house has a compact, double-pile plan and is two storeys high with three bays. The facade is slightly asymmetrical, with narrower bays on the right. The outer bays feature three-pane sash windows, square in shape on the first floor. All windows have gauged heads; the left side has narrow concrete lintels, while the right side has repointed heads. The central bay contains a blind panel with a gauged head above a half-glazed door under a flat hood supported on wooden brackets. A small, single-storey extension with a board door is set back on the right side of the building.
Local climate
The Old 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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