The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- night-gallery-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0NH
- OS grid reference
- SD 354 998
- Coordinates
- 54.39022, -2.99509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house that likely dates from the 18th century and has been altered over time. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a one-storey recessed bay on the right side. The ground floor windows have dripcourses and small-paned fixed glazing; the window in the second bay has an opening pane, while the third bay features pivoted upper lights. The end bay includes a top-hung casement and a porch with a cat slide roof that has a return door. On the first floor, there are small-paned casements. The house has a gabled porch and a gable-end stack. The left side of the building has dripcourses. At the rear, which faces the street, there is a slated dripcourse above two windows in the third bay; the left window is a two-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window, and the right window is a casement. The one-storey bay on the left is recessed and includes a garage door, along with an adjacent lean-to stone outshut at the gable end of the original house. There is also a 20th-century gabled timber porch.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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