Lanchester Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1975. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Lanchester Post Office
- WRENN ID
- carved-foundation-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1975
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Lanchester Post Office, 27, Front Street, DH7 0HT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 165 475
- Coordinates
- 54.82282, -1.74435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house and shop, dating to 1788. It is constructed of painted, thinly-rendered coursed sandstone with quoins and painted ashlar dressings, and has a stone-flagged roof with ashlar and brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high and three bays wide. The right-hand bay of the ground floor contains a door leading to the house, with a tooled flat stone surround and an inscription in the lintel reading "Mary and Sarah Brown 1788". The shop door is centrally positioned on the ground floor, also with a similar surround. The shop window on the left-hand side of the ground floor has narrow wood pilasters and a plain wood fascia. The ground floor window to the right of the first bay has a similar surround. The first floor has late 19th-century sash windows in the first bay, and in the third bay. A trompe-l'oeil twelve-pane sash window is located in the centre of the first floor.
Local climate
Lanchester Post Office receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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