The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1994. Not listed.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- floating-step-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside MP: Sir Mark Tami (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1994
- Type
- Not listed
- Address
- The Post Office, 1 the Highway, Hawarden
- OS grid reference
- SJ 315 657
- Coordinates
- 53.18483, -3.0256
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Post Office is a single-storey, flat-roofed brick building featuring a symmetrical shop facade. It has a castellated parapet with coped crenellations, with the central crenellation stepped up. Below this, there is a rectangular moulded frame that contains the incised name "Hawarden Post Office." The eastern parapet displays the date 1907. The building is adorned with a moulded and dentilated cornice, a wooden flagpole, and a contemporary blind-box. The central entrance consists of recessed double doors with glazed upper panels, and the structure includes a moulded brick plinth and stone cills.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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