Head Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Post office. 4 related planning applications.
Head Post Office
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Head Post Office, 8 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, EC1V 9HQ
- OS grid reference
- SN 583 816
- Coordinates
- 52.41478, -4.08397
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Head Post Office is a three-storey building with a three-window brick front, featuring terracotta window dressings, wide-bracket eaves, and red brick chimney stacks. The first and second floors have paired sash windows that are linked by panels with arabesque detailing, and there are egg and dart cornices on the first floor. A notable feature of the building is the tesselated fascia on the ground floor that reads "E VII R POST OFFICE 1901," accompanied by an egg and dart cornice and fluted fascia ends. The entrance, which has small pane glazing above a panelled door, is offset to the left and flanked by channelled pilasters, with a modern window nearby. To the right of the entrance, there is a clock set within a Baroque broken pedimented frame. Additionally, terracotta brick ventilator panels are present at the plinth level.
Local climate
Head Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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