Wadenhoe Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. Shop.
Wadenhoe Post Office
- WRENN ID
- roaming-groin-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1987
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Wadenhoe Post Office, Main Street, PE8 5SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 011 835
- Coordinates
- 52.44085, -0.51342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wadenhoe Post Office is a house that has been converted into a house and shop, dating from the early 18th century. It is built from regular coursed limestone and features an artificial-slate roof. The original layout was a three-unit plan. The building is single storey with an attic and has a three-window range of 19th and 20th-century casements under wooden lintels. The window on the far left includes a glazed shop door. There are three hipped-eaves dormers in the attic, which also have similar casements. A central 20th-century door provides access. Brick and stone stacks are located at the ridge. Inside, the building has chamfered spine beams and remnants of open fireplaces, which are now blocked. Wadenhoe Post Office is noted for being the first telegraph post office established in an English village, initiated by the Right Honourable George Ward-Hunt, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Disraeli's cabinet of 1868. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Wadenhoe Post Office sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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