Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House.
Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-minaret-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Cottage, Lancaster Road, Caton-With-Littledale
- OS grid reference
- SD 529 646
- Coordinates
- 54.07603, -2.72085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Post Cottage is a house built in 1692. It features pebbledashed rubble and a slate roof. The structure has a three-cell plan, with the right-hand cell likely being a later addition. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are mullioned, with rebate and chamfer details. All windows have three lights, except for the ground-floor window in the second bay, which has six lights. The door located between the first and second bays has a chamfered surround and a battlemented lintel inscribed with 'IWM 1692'. There is a second door with plain reveals to the left of the right-hand bay. The chimneys are located on the left-hand gable and between the second and third bays.
Local climate
Old Post Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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