The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Post Office, Main Street, Thwing
- OS grid reference
- TA 048 700
- Coordinates
- 54.11555, -0.39689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house built around 1830, constructed of brick with a slate roof. It features two storeys and three bays, presenting a symmetrical facade. The main entrance has a door with six raised and fielded panels set in panelled reveals, topped by a fanlight with radial glazing, all within a pilastered doorcase that has a moulded cornice. The ground floor has 16-pane sash windows beneath gauged brick segmental arches, while the first floor also has 16-pane sashes framed in wooden architraves. The building has end stacks and a hipped roof.
Local climate
The Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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