The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- calm-baluster-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Winster, Crook, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 3NN
- OS grid reference
- SD 416 939
- Coordinates
- 54.33794, -2.89937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house, dating to 1600, as indicated by the inscription "EB 1950" under the eaves. It was formerly used as a post office. The walls are rendered rubble, topped with a graduated greenslate roof with stone ridges. A chimney is located on the left-hand gable. The house is two storeys high. A heavily studded, vertically boarded oak door, complete with an old lock, is set within a stone-built, gabled porch, which has a slate roof and side benches. A 19th-century shop window is located to the right, featuring iron glazing bars, a single opening pane, and an inserted GR letterbox. A casement window is to the left, and two casement windows are above, all of which are 20th-century replacements. A lower-level extension to the left is likely later but sympathetic in style.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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