Post Office and Adjoining Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. Post office, cottage.
Post Office and Adjoining Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-sentry-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1969
- Type
- Post office, cottage
- OS grid reference
- NZ 035 803
- Coordinates
- 55.11773, -1.94613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and adjoining cottage in Capheaton, built between 1830 and 1840, features ashlar stonework and a graduated Lakeland slate roof. This single-storey building, which includes attics, has seven bays. The boarded doors are set within Tudor-arched chamfered surrounds located in the first, fourth, and seventh bays. Each bay contains three-light mullioned windows with 4-pane casements. The steeply-pitched gabled roof is supported by stone brackets at the eaves, has overlapping coping, and is topped with two corniced ridge stacks. At the rear, there is a continuous outshut and a central four-light dormer window.
Local climate
Post Office and Adjoining Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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