The Old Post Office, Girnoc is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office, Girnoc
- WRENN ID
- sombre-dormer-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Girnoc, AB35 5SS
- OS grid reference
- NO 324 957
- Coordinates
- 57.04806, -3.11489
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Post Office in Girnoc is a former Post Office building from the later 19th century. It is a single storey and attic structure with three bays. The building features a pair of dormers that break the eaves, each with distinctive splayed gables. The roof is adorned with bands of decorative slating, including fish-scale and diamond patterns. The exterior is constructed from granite rubble and has deep eaves. There is a small 20th century extension at the rear.
The ground floor has 6-pane casement windows with chunky timber mullions and transoms, while the attic features casements with timber mullions. The entrance door is a timber 4-panel, 2-leaf design, topped with a narrow 2-pane fanlight and set within simple pilastered jambs. The building also has ridge stacks.
The interior was not accessible for viewing during the visit in February 2006.
Local climate
The Old Post Office, Girnoc sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 89 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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