Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1995. Sheltered housing complex. 1 related planning application.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ragged-lime-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1995
- Type
- Sheltered housing complex
- Address
- Post Office, Corwen, LL21 0DF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 078 434
- Coordinates
- 52.98048, -3.37406
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a Post Office constructed from coursed and squared stone with a slate roof. It originally features two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range and full-height canted bay windows on either side of the entrance. The right-hand bay was renewed, likely in 1936, while the left-hand bay is obscured by a single-storey extension that forms the main frontage of the post office, also dated 1936. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows with flat arched voussoir heads on each face, and there is a 12-pane sash window above the entrance. The roof includes three wide gabled dormers that appear to be reconstructions, possibly enlarging earlier windows.
To the left, there is a single-storey extension for the post office, which has three bays defined by pilasters. This extension features paired doors with metal glazed overlights to the right and large multi-paned windows to the left, along with a moulded cornice and blocking course. There is a similar side door in the porch leading to the sorting office range, which forms the rear wing on the right side and includes clerestory glazing.
The ground floor underwent extensive remodeling when converted to a post office, with ceiling beams supported by brackets dating from 1936. One room retains some 18th-century fittings, including a moulded plaster cornice and a panelled spine beam.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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