The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 August 1994. Post office.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
errant-hall-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 August 1994
Type
Post office
Address
The Post Office, Ammanford
OS grid reference
SN 630 122
Coordinates
51.79235, -3.98765
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Post Office is a three-storey building with a stone ground floor and colourwashed render above, topped with a slate roof featuring flat eaves, coped shouldered gables, and rendered stacks. It has a four-window range with small-paned metal windows throughout. At the attic level, there are four pairs of casement windows under the eaves with stone sills. The first floor features four long, 28-pane curved-headed windows with plain surrounds and stone sills, where the bottom 12 panes open as a casement pair.

The ground floor is distinguished by a fine grey ashlar pilastrade consisting of five broad piers with low plinths and plain moulded caps, with the corner piers being broader. A straight two-step entablature spans the front, displaying bronze letters that read 'Post Office Swyddfa'r Post' and the shadow of a previous date from 1925. The broad small-paned glazing above the ashlar walling is arranged in three bays, with the second bay's walling raised slightly to accommodate a posting box. The glazing bars include a circular design in front of a clock. Additionally, there is a similar small-paned overlight above the altered double doors in the third bay. The northern end of the building features two ground floor windows and one long first floor window.

Local climate

The Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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