The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House and post office.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fading-spindle-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House and post office
- Address
- The Post Office, 31, Grafton Underwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 803
- Coordinates
- 52.41348, -0.64314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house and post office located in Grafton Underwood, likely dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a roof with modern plain tiles on the front slope and Welsh slates on the rear. The building has end stacks with brick shafts on slightly projecting stone chimneys. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range. The central entrance consists of a four-panel door with an overlight, and there is a two-light casement window above it. The other windows are mostly three-light, primarily iron-framed gudgeon-hung casements, all with gauged stone heads. To the right, there is a one-storey addition that includes a shop window and a boarded door, along with outshuts at the rear. The interior of the house has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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