Post Office, Cawdor Village is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. Terrace, former post office.

Post Office, Cawdor Village

WRENN ID
lone-tracery-sorrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
Type
Terrace, former post office
OS grid reference
NH 846 500
Coordinates
57.52558, -3.92778
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office in Cawdor Village is a later 19th century terrace building, featuring a single storey and an attic. It is constructed of harl pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The building has an irregular façade with five bays and an off-centre door. There are two gabled dormers and windows with four-pane glazing.

Originally known as the Post Office House, it has a wide three-bay layout. The central door is flanked by bipartite windows that have two-pane glazing. The outer bays feature two canted dormers, along with a smaller piended dormer in the centre. The building has ridge and end corniced stacks and is topped with slate roofs.

Local climate

Post Office, Cawdor Village receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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