Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- sheer-vestry-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office, Course Lane, Newburgh, WN8 7LA
- OS grid reference
- SD 482 103
- Coordinates
- 53.58693, -2.7837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house that has been converted into a post office, likely dating from the early 19th century, with some alterations. It is constructed of red and yellow brick in Flemish bond, featuring a stone plinth and a roof made of stone slate with some Welsh slate. The main part of the building has a double-depth, double-fronted plan and is two storeys high with two windows, arranged symmetrically. The central entrance is a round-headed doorway, accessed by two steps, and has imposts and a keystone within a plain surround. The ground floor features unhorned 12-pane sashed windows with exposed boxes and raised sills, with wedge lintels above. A gable chimney is located on the right side. To the left, there is a lower two-storey extension built in English garden wall bond, which includes a three-light casement window at ground floor and a two-light casement above, topped with a Welsh slate roof. Most of the rear windows have been altered.
Local climate
Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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