Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-storey-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Cottage, Main Street, Twyford, MK18 4EP
- OS grid reference
- SP 664 263
- Coordinates
- 51.93203, -1.03509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Post Cottage is a late 18th century house that originally served as a post office, with a date of 1847 marked on the right side. The building features whitewashed render and a thatched roof with a brick stack on the right. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The cottage side includes a paired wooden casement window to the right and smaller similar casements on the first floor, along with a blocked door to the left. There is a single storey extension on the left with a slate roof and a three-light barred casement window. The post office section has a slate roof and a central brick stack, also two storeys high with three bays. It features large barred windows with cambered heads on the ground floor and three-light 19th century casements on the first floor, with some alterations or renewals in the right-hand bay. Double board doors are located between the left-hand bays.
Local climate
Old Post Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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