Post Office and House Adjoining to East is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Shop, house.
Post Office and House Adjoining to East
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- Shop, house
- OS grid reference
- SD 784 442
- Coordinates
- 53.89442, -2.32872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and the adjoining house to the east, believed to have been built around 1910, is a shop and residence located in Downham Village. The building is constructed of rubble, primarily limestone, with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. It stands two storeys high.
On the west wall, the left side projects forward as an outshut, which includes a large shop window with a plain stone surround and a relieving arch above it. The door, located in the right-hand return wall of the outshut, also has a plain stone surround and is sheltered by an open timber porch. To the right of the outshut is a sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround. At a 45-degree angle across the corner of the building is a similar window, with a third window on the south gable wall. Above the middle window, corbels support the corner of the building.
The south wall features a tripartite sashed window with glazing bars, a plain stone surround, and square mullions on the first floor. Above this window is a blank niche with a plain stone surround and a semi-circular head. On the ground floor to the right, there is a door with a plain stone surround, external stone steps, and an open timber porch. The gable is topped with coping, a left-hand kneeler, and a ball finial at the apex.
To the east, there is an additional section of the building that projects forward, featuring tripartite sashed windows with glazing bars, plain stone surrounds, and square mullions on both floors. On the ground floor to the right is another sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround. Further to the right is a single-storey outshut that includes a similar window and a door with a plain stone surround to its left.
Local climate
Post Office and House Adjoining to East sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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