The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Rectory site.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- stranded-remnant-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- Rectory site
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94689, -3.39142
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a two-storey building located on St Mary Street. It features a painted roughcast exterior with a smooth band between the floors, as well as quoins and a plinth. The roof is slate, and there are rendered rectangular chimneys. The windows are set in moulded architraves, with small-pane hornless windows on the first floor and horned sashes on the ground floor. The first floor includes three paired sash windows and one narrow sash window on the left. The ground floor has a wide bowed small-pane shop window and a doorway framed by pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice, along with a sash window at the left-hand end and two sash windows on the right. To the right of the shop window, there is an old stamp machine. The building has been significantly modernised in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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