Post Office and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Post office/shop.
Post Office and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- carved-moulding-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Post office/shop
- OS grid reference
- SD 705 869
- Coordinates
- 54.27734, -2.45424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and adjoining barn in Dent is a pair of cottages that have been combined to serve as a post office and shop. Likely built in the 18th century, the structure has been altered over time. It features coursed rubble with quoins, painted white, and a stone slate roof. The building has a double-depth, two-unit plan with a rear wing on the left side, and the barn extends from the end of this wing.
The exterior consists of two low storeys and three windows, set on a plinth. The ground floor has two square-headed doorways in the center, both with board doors, although the left door is now fixed. To the left, there is a square four-pane sash window, and to the right, a rectangular two-light shop window, along with a letterbox next to it. On the first floor, there are three square sash windows with 12, 4, and 12 panes, respectively. A gable chimney is located on the left, featuring a stone slate band, while a ridge chimney on the right is coupled with that of The Wool Shop.
The left gable wall has a 12-pane sash window near the rear corner of the ground floor, a small one-light window above it, and a large rectangular window near the front corner of the first floor, which has been modified with double glazing to imitate a 16-pane sash. Above this, there is a small square attic window. The rear wing includes a doorway at the junction, a small window to the left of this, and a 12-pane sash window above.
The barn, constructed of unpainted roughly-coursed rubble with through-stones, is likely two bays and continues at the same height as the main building. It features a square-headed doorway at the junction with a stone lintel, a loading door above this, and a wagon doorway at the left end with a wooden lintel. The rear and interior of the barn were not inspected.
This building forms a group with The Wool Shop adjoining to the right and with Siege Ghyll to the southeast.
Local climate
Post Office and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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