Mellow Cottage and Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. House, cottage.
Mellow Cottage and Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- mired-spandrel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Mellow Cottage and Old Post Office, Gainsborough Road, Lea
- OS grid reference
- SK 828 866
- Coordinates
- 53.36986, -0.75682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mellow Cottage and Old Post Office is a house that has been converted into two cottages. It dates from the early 18th century, with some 19th and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of red brick and features pantile roofs, including a shaped west gable, coped gables with kneelers, a gable stack, two ridge stacks, and a gable stack at the rear. The overall layout is L-shaped, which was adapted to an F-plan in the 20th century.
The north front is two storeys high with five irregular bays, a plinth, a first-floor band, and decorated eaves. There is a doorway to the left within a brick gabled porch that has a segmental head and a plank door. To the left of the doorway, there is a three-light sliding sash window with a segmental head, and to the right, there are two three-light sliding sashes, with the far-right window also having a segmental head. Above, there are five sliding sashes with wooden lintels.
The east front has two storeys and a garret, featuring two bays with a plinth, a first-floor band, and decorated eaves. It includes two large fixed glazing bar windows with segmental heads, and above these are two sliding sashes with 20th-century shutters. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear.
Inside Mellow Cottage, the ceilings are beamed, and there are inglenook fireplaces, one of which has a chamfered beam.
Local climate
Mellow Cottage and Old Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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