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.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- brooding-brick-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, High Road, Soulbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 883 270
- Coordinates
- 51.93489, -0.71663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a small house dating from the early 17th century, which has been altered over time. It features a timber frame with curved braces and whitewashed brick infill, with herringbone patterns on the first floor. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, with flanking brick chimneys. The building is 1½ storeys tall and consists of two bays. On the ground floor, there are wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars; the right side has a three-light window, while the left side features a canted bay window with a hipped tile roof. The first floor has paired barred wooden casements with segmental heads beneath the thatch. A central door from the 20th century is present, along with a later single-storey bay to the right that has an old tile roof.
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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