Bakewell Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Post office, shop. 1 related planning application.

Bakewell Post Office

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Post office, shop
Address
Bakewell Post Office, 7, 8 and 9, Portland Square, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 218 685
Coordinates
53.21315, -1.67385
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bakewell Post Office is a pair of houses, now serving as a post office and shop, located facing Water Street. They were built around 1800 and are constructed from deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone with a stone slate roof.

The exterior features a two-storey design with a central doorway for each house, along with one window on each floor. The doorways have bonded ashlar surrounds, with a part-glazed, four-panel door on the right and a panel that includes a posting box and stamp machine within the doorway to the left. The windows are 8/8 sashes set in ashlar surrounds, with projecting stone sills. The right gable has an acute splay, and there is a stone end stack. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bakewell Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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