Post Office, Main Street, Kippen is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979.
Post Office, Main Street, Kippen
- WRENN ID
- quartered-span-larch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 September 1979
- OS grid reference
- NS 650 947
- Coordinates
- 56.12648, -4.17185
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century post office, located on the north side of Main Street in Kippen. The building is two storeys high and three bays wide. It is faced in lined render with painted margins. At ground floor level are two shop fronts, with a window in the centre. The first floor has three windows, each with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered in slate and features end stacks.
Local climate
Post Office, Main Street, Kippen sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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