The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1995. Bank.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- scattered-steel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1995
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Cilycwm
- OS grid reference
- SN 752 400
- Coordinates
- 52.04449, -3.81986
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Post Office and Llyswen is a building constructed from whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs and features three stacks. The Old Post Office has a rendered stack at each end and a large square brick stack from the 20th century to the left, shared with Ty Mawr. It is two stories tall with a three-window range. The windows are timber cross-windows with stone voussoirs and keystones, and the central half-glazed door has a similar stone head. On the ground floor to the left, there is a well-preserved 19th-century shop front that includes a door with an overlight, aligned with a window above, and a window to the left featuring nine large panes. An iron railing is positioned in front of this window. The rear of the building has a projection to the left, a central door, and a four-pane window above, along with a lean-to on the right. Llyswen has grey washed walls, with similar voussoirs and keystones above the door to the right and a one-window range of five-pane horned sashes to the left. The rear includes a two-story lean-to addition made of brick.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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