Post Office, Also Known As South View Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. House, post office.

Post Office, Also Known As South View Cafe

WRENN ID
secret-flue-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Type
House, post office
Address
Post Office, Also Known As South View Cafe, Main Street, Malham, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SD 900 628
Coordinates
54.06145, -2.15287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office, also known as South View Cafe, is a building that dates back to the 18th century. Originally a house and cottage, it now serves as a house and post office. The structure is made of limewashed rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof.

The house is two storeys high and has a double-fronted design. The entrance is framed by a moulded surround and features a six-panel door, with the upper two panels being glazed. The windows have plain surrounds and recessed flat-faced mullions, with most having two lights, except for the right-hand ground floor window, which has three lights. The windows are a mix of four, six, and eight-pane sashes, casements, and fixed lights. There are limewashed ridge stacks on the left-hand gable and at the junction of the former gable and the cottage.

The cottage is also two storeys tall and consists of one bay, with its facade slightly set back from the house. It has a central ground floor entrance beneath a 20th-century porch, and a 20th-century ground floor bay window to the left. The right-hand ground floor window has a plain surround and a 19th-century sash without glazing bars. The upper floor features a two-light flat-faced mullioned window with a plain surround and casements. There is a stone ridge stack on the right-hand gable.

This property is prominently located in the center of the village next to the bridge.

Local climate

Post Office, Also Known As South View Cafe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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