The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- heavy-transept-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Market Place, Holy Island
- OS grid reference
- NU 126 418
- Coordinates
- 55.67026, -1.80093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house, likely built in the 17th century or early 18th century. It features random rubble construction with a pantiled roof and has an L-shaped layout. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. In the third bay, there is a two-leaf 20th-century plank door with a roughly-alternating surround and a relieving arch above it. The ground floor also has windows with relieving arches, featuring six- and nine-pane designs. On the first floor, there are small six-pane sash windows. The roof is steeply pitched with gables, raised coping, and rendered brick end stacks.
At the rear, there is a single-storey wing that is styled similarly to the main building. There is a 20th-century addition attached to the left side, which is in a similar style but is not of special interest.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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