Oundle Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1974. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
Oundle Post Office
- WRENN ID
- quartered-grate-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1974
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Oundle Post Office, New Street, PE8 4EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 040 881
- Coordinates
- 52.48098, -0.469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oundle Post Office, dated 1903, is located on the west side of New Street. The building features two gabled dormers with Ionic pilastered architraves framing 2-light mullioned windows. It is constructed over two storeys in ashlar stone, topped with a stone slate roof and a stone stack. A cornice and string course run above two 6-light windows that have mullions and transoms, with a cornice and string course at the cills that connects to the door above, supported by reeded consoles. The doorway is adorned with reeded pilasters and a keystone beneath a round arch. The ground floor includes a mullion and transom window with 10 lights. All the listed buildings on New Street form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Oundle Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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