Post Office Post Office and Brampton House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House, post office.
Post Office Post Office and Brampton House
- WRENN ID
- half-porch-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Post Office Post Office and Brampton House, Flatt Road, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54495, -1.92521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building known as the Post Office and Brampton House is a house that now serves as a post office. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone alterations and rear additions in the mid-19th century. The exterior features painted render with a painted plinth and ashlar dressings. The main roof is covered with graduated Lakeland slate, adorned with stone gable copings and rendered chimneys, while the roof of No. 2 has stone slates.
The main house on the left has three storeys and a four-window range, while No. 2 on the right has two storeys and a one-window range. The main house features a renewed six-panel door set within a painted stone architrave in the second bay, with similar architraves and projecting stone sills supporting renewed four-pane sashes on the upper floors. The second-floor windows are smaller, and there is a renewed window to the left of the door with a copper-sheet front for a posting box below a plain light. Flanking the main entrance are mid-19th century canted bay windows with four-pane sashes, one of which has a stamp machine inserted.
No. 2 to the right has a renewed six-panel door with a plain overlight to the left, and renewed four-pane sashes with painted flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to the right. The main roof is double-span with stone gable copings, moulded stone kneelers, and corniced end chimneys on each range, while No. 2 features a tall rendered chimney at the right end. The left return facing Flatt Road has a renewed door and plain sashes in the rear range, along with a one-storey addition on the left that has one window and a stone-mullioned canted bay window under a hipped roof.
Local climate
Post Office Post Office and Brampton House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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