Longhirst Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. House. 2 related planning applications.
Longhirst Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ancient-spindle-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Longhirst Post Office, 13, Longhirst Village, NE61 3LT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 224 892
- Coordinates
- 55.19718, -1.64863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 19th-century house, built incorporating earlier fabric. It is constructed of squared, tooled stone with tooled-and-margined dressings, and has a slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with two bays. There is a renewed door on the far right, and sash windows. The gables are coped, and the right end has a stepped and corniced stack, while the left end has a rendered and corniced stack.
Local climate
Longhirst Post Office receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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