Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1962. House. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- final-thatch-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office, 48, North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3ET
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77491, -1.57471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at No. 48 North Bailey, originally a house from the early 18th century, now serves as a Post Office. The structure features incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof, complemented by brick and rendered chimneys. It stands three storeys high and has two bays. The shop front displays Jacobean ornamentation with pilasters framing a four-panelled door to the house on the left and a shop entrance on the right. The shop window consists of six panes with vertical glazing bars and includes a letter-box on the left, all beneath an entablature with a modillioned cornice supported by brackets. The upper floors feature late 19th-century sash windows in wide boxes with projecting stone sills. The eaves band is irregular, and there are two end chimneys, one rendered on the left and a new brick one on the right.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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