Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Post office.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- open-hammer-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, Presteigne
- OS grid reference
- SO 314 644
- Coordinates
- 52.27356, -3.00654
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a Post Office, dating from the mid-19th century. It features matching tall two-storey frontages with two windows, made of stucco and adorned with a band course above the first floor. The hipped slate roof has wide eaves and twin bargeboarded gables above No 1 High Street. The double-hung sash windows, which include glazing bars, are set in plain reveals. Both elevations of the shop fronts have an overall moulded cornice, curved volute brackets, and plain mullions. There is a door on the corner splay, supported by cast iron columns that hold up the upper floors.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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