The Old Post Office and Adjacent Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House.
The Old Post Office and Adjacent Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- slow-quoin-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office and Adjacent Outbuildings, Plenmeller with Whitfield
- OS grid reference
- NY 780 573
- Coordinates
- 54.91078, -2.34395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office and adjacent outbuildings is a house, likely built in the late 18th century. It features squared stone construction with tooled and margined quoins and dressings, topped by a slate roof, while the rear outshut and outbuildings have stone slates. The building has two storeys and two wide bays. The central entrance has a renewed door with an overlight, set within an open porch supported by circular stone piers. There are 12-pane sash windows, and all openings have alternating jambs. The stepped stacks have been rebuilt in yellow brick. To the right rear, there is a single-storey range of outbuildings, now partly used for domestic purposes, which includes two elliptical-arched cart entrances, one of which is blocked, along with a boarded door flanked by small windows. The end section of this range has a slate roof and is not of particular interest. There is a corniced stone ridge stack at the right end and a brick stack. The left rear outbuilding range contains several sash windows, including one old sliding sash.
Local climate
The Old Post Office and Adjacent Outbuildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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