Little Thatch Lowick Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Houses, shop.
Little Thatch Lowick Post Office
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-gateway-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- Houses, shop
- Address
- Little Thatch Lowick Post Office, 6, Drayton Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 976 808
- Coordinates
- 52.41669, -0.56539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch Lowick Post Office consists of two houses and a shop, dating from the early to mid 18th century, with alterations made in the mid 19th century. The buildings are constructed from regular coursed and squared limestone, topped with thatch and Collyweston slate roofs, forming an L-shaped plan.
No. 6 is two storeys high, featuring a two-bay main front with a one-window range to the left. The first floor has a three-light stone mullion window, while the ground floor includes a casement window with glazing bars and a hood mould. A cross wing extends forward to the right, displaying a one-window range of casements under wood lintels in the gable end. The return wall of the cross wing features a 19th-century shop window with glazing bars and an attached plank door, all beneath a slated wooden hood. There is a brick stack at the end of this section, and the elevation to the right of the cross wing mirrors the left, with a casement window under a wood lintel.
No. 8, attached to the left of No. 6, has one casement window with glazing bars under a wood lintel at the ground floor and two eyebrow dormers with similar casements in the attic. A 20th-century door with a hood is located to the right, and there is a brick stack at the end. The interior of the Post Office features ceiling beams.
Local climate
Little Thatch Lowick 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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