Former School (Mungrisdale Post Office) is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. School.
Former School (Mungrisdale Post Office)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-zinc-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former School (Mungrisdale Post Office), Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 363 305
- Coordinates
- 54.66574, -2.98904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former school, now a private house and Post Office, was built in 1835 and closed as a school in 1960. It features painted rendered walls with V-jointed sandstone quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The building has a graduated hipped slate roof with stone and rendered chimney stacks. It is 1½ storeys high and consists of 2 bays, built on a slope. There are two plank doors in alternate-block sandstone surrounds, each under keyed friezes. A large central window with glazing bars is round-headed, while sash windows with glazing bars are located in sandstone surrounds at the extreme left and right. The rear of the building has two similar large round-headed windows.
Local climate
Former School (Mungrisdale Post Office) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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