Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House and shop. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- dusk-cobalt-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- Post Office, Post Office Street, Witton-Le-Wear, DL14 0AW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 149 312
- Coordinates
- 54.67607, -1.76988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office in Witton-le-Wear is a house and shop with a loft, built around 1840. It is constructed from roughly-squared coursed rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and two wide bays. The shop is located in the right bay and includes a central four-panel door with an overlight, flanked by windows that have three rows of three large panes. These are framed by Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. To the right of the first bay, there is another four-panel door under an overlight with a flat stone lintel, along with plain sash windows with flat stone lintels on each floor of the first bay. Above the shop, there is a partly-glazed boarded loft door with a flat stone lintel and a projecting stone sill. The low-pitched roof has end chimneys. A cast iron low-relief street nameplate is positioned at the centre sill level on the first floor, and there is a wooden painted sign that reads 'Witton-le-Wear Post Office' at the right end over the shop.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 15 transactions since 1996
- 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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