Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- wild-cinder-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office, Low Row, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 984 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37911, -2.02525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed, rock-faced sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with rusticated quoins at the corners. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door set within a plain stone surround, topped with a plain frieze and cornice. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are adorned with sandstone sills and lintels. To the left of the doorway, there is a letter box built into the wall. The roof is supported by paired stone gutter brackets, and there are kneelers and ashlar coping along the edges, with stacks at both ends. The Post Office has since moved to a single-storey extension on the left side of the building.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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