Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A Georgian House.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- little-paling-scarlet
- 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
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Old Post Office, the Laning, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 704 870
- Coordinates
- 54.27841, -2.45586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, and has undergone enlargements and alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan oriented on an east-west axis and faces south.
It stands two storeys tall and has three windows that are almost symmetrical. The ground floor includes a central gabled porch, which may be a recent addition, flanked by large square windows that are now fitted with 6-pane sashes. On the first floor, there is a 4-pane sash window in the center and a 6-pane sash window on either side. The front left corner is partially obscured by an outshut from the adjoining property, which is not of special interest. A corbelled chimney is located at the east gable, and there is a ridge chimney at the junction to the left. The rear of the building has an inserted back door to the right, a small stair-window in the center, and two additional windows on each floor.
The interior was not inspected. The Old Post Office forms a group with the Old School, which is located diagonally opposite to the southwest.
Local climate
Old Post Office 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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