Old Post Office Building is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Public house.
Old Post Office Building
- WRENN ID
- turning-panel-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Public house
- OS grid reference
- SS 751 974
- Coordinates
- 51.66168, -3.80692
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Post Office Building is a two-storey structure with an attic, featuring four windows and irregular stonework laid to courses. It has a steeply pitched modern slate roof with shouldered raking gable parapets. A moulded stone cornice is positioned below the eaves level and incorporates a lander with contemporary rainwater goods at the ends. The building is dated 1927 at the waterheads.
In the attic, there are four hipped dormers with slightly swept slate roofs, slated cheeks, and lead valleys. The windows consist of nine-pane horned sashes set in flush frames.
On the first floor, there are four 15-pane horned sash windows, also in flush frames, featuring regular stone voussoirs and stone sills. Ventilation blocks are located below the sills.
The ground floor has a three-bay ashlar arcade flanked by doorways. The arcade features moulded round arches with keystones, resting on a corniced impost band. The ashlar masonry plinth is complemented by small-paned windows recessed under the arches. There are doorways at the extreme left and right, with stone voussoirs and stressed keystones, leading to panelled double doors.
Local climate
Old Post Office Building sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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