The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 2001. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- noble-groin-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Nant-Y-Derry, Pontypool, Goetre Fawr
- OS grid reference
- SO 331 060
- Coordinates
- 51.74934, -2.96972
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a two-storey house built from squared snecked rock-faced sandstone blocks, featuring a cogged band between the floors and a Welsh slate roof. It is part of a terrace of railwaymen's cottages, specifically Nos. 1-4 Nantyderry Cottages. This building consists of two bays and may have originally been two separate cottages before being converted into a shop.
On the left side, the ground floor includes an 8 over 8 pane sash window with an elliptical head and a plank door to the right. Above, there is a sash window with 2 over 2 horizontal panes and an octagonal-shaped head, set within a gable. The right side features a two-storey gabled wing that projects out. The ground floor has a shop window with 4 x 4 panes, and above it is a larger sash window with 2 over 2 panes and a similarly shaped head. The roof is steeply pitched and has brick stacks located on the left and in the centre. The rear elevation has not been seen. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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