The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1978. Commercial premises. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Post Office

WRENN ID
idle-pilaster-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1978
Type
Commercial premises
Address
The Old Post Office, 9 West Street, Fishguard, Fishguard and Goodwick, SA65 9AG
OS grid reference
SM 956 370
Coordinates
51.99427, -4.97734
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Old Post Office is a former commercial premises that has been designated as a Grade II listed building. It features stuccoed cladding and a slate half-hipped roof with thin brick end stacks. The structure stands three storeys tall and consists of two main bays plus one slightly set-back bay on the right. Each floor is adorned with angle pilasters and heavy moulded cornices, with broader friezes on the main floors and a heavier cornice at the eaves level. The ground floor showcases channelled rustication. The windows are cambered-headed and framed in moulded architraves, fitted with plate glass sashes. The recessed bay mirrors this design, but the ground floor sash is positioned to the left to allow for a pilastered and pedimented doorway. The ground floor windows have 20th-century glazing, and the entrance door is a five-panelled design with an overlight.

Inside, upon entering through the front door, there is a staircase featuring turned balusters and a fluted newel topped with a ball finial, along with a stair screen that includes leaded coloured glass arranged in four lights. To the left of the entrance is the main office, which is now used as a shop.

Local climate

The Old Post Office 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 greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 1997
  • 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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