The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-granite-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Main Street, Appletreewick, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 053 600
- Coordinates
- 54.03679, -1.91959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, constructed of ashlar and rubblestone with a graduated stone slate roof. The building is two stories high and features scattered fenestration, consisting of two bays with a three-bay wing at a right angle on the left side.
On the right side, there is a four-panel door set within a chamfered three-centred arch surround, while to the left, there is a five-light chamfered mullioned window, both of which are beneath a continuous hoodmould. On the first floor, to the left, there is a three-light chamfered mullioned window, and to the right, a one-light chamfered window. The building has end stacks, with one rising to the ridge.
The wing, which is from the 16th century, has modern openings in the left-hand bays. In the right-hand bay on the ground floor, there is a three-light double-chamfered mullioned window, above which is a similar window with two lights.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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