Post Office and House Adjoining to South East is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House, shop.
Post Office and House Adjoining to South East
- WRENN ID
- deep-zinc-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- House, shop
- OS grid reference
- SD 603 674
- Coordinates
- 54.10181, -2.60818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, a house and shop, was constructed in 1746 and has been altered over time. It is made of sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The structure is two storeys high. The post office section has two bays with flush chamfered mullioned windows. The left bay contains two lights, with the left light on the ground floor having a post box inserted, while the other light retains glazing bars. On the first floor, the mullion has been removed and the sill lowered. The right bay features a three-light window on the first floor, with the outer lights having glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a 19th-century bow window with glazing bars. The door, located between the bays, has a plain stone surround.
To the left, the house has two bays with sashed windows that have glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. The door on the right has plain reveals. There are two wide entrances to the left; the left entrance has a timber lintel, while the right entrance features a segmental arch. There are chimneys located to the right of the latter entrance, positioned between the house and shop, as well as on the right-hand gable.
Local climate
Post Office and House Adjoining to South East sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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