Postern House is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
Postern House
- WRENN ID
- small-spandrel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Postern House, 1, Tower Place, YO1 9RZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 604 514
- Coordinates
- 53.95536, -1.08096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Postern House is an early 19th-century house located in York. It is constructed of red-grey brick laid in Flemish bond, featuring a timber doorcase and eaves cornice, along with brick end stacks and a Welsh slate roof. The house has a central-entry plan and a two-storey front with two windows. The central doorcase is supported by engaged fluted Doric columns and has a beaded panelled frieze with a cornice hood. Two steps lead up to the door, which consists of six raised and fielded panels and is topped by a margin-glazed overlight, set within an incised panelled reveal. The windows are 16-pane sashes with renewed sills and flat arches made of gauged brick. The first-floor windows are accented by a dentilled and bracketed cornice. Additionally, there is a Yorkshire Insurance firemark dated 1824 on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Postern House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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