Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. House. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-bronze-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Office Cottage, Village Green, Arncliffe, North Yorkshire, BD23 5QD
- OS grid reference
- SD 932 718
- Coordinates
- 54.14214, -2.10505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble and has a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and features three first-floor windows, with a projecting outshut bay on the left side. There is a four-panel door located in a 20th-century trellised wooden porch to the right of the center, accompanied by a two-light flat-faced mullion window to the left and a blocked recessed chamfered window further left. The other windows consist of 16-pane or 4-pane sashes set in plain surrounds. A large ridge stack is positioned to the left of the center, with an end stack on the left side. The outshut includes a board door and a square opening on the front, while a 20th-century door on the right side now serves as the entrance to the post office. Although the interior was not inspected during the re-survey, the presence of the blocked 17th-century window and the large stack suggests the building's early origins. The stonework coursing continues to the nearby Constabulary House, indicating that this structure may have originally been part of a larger range, possibly consisting of a house and a barn.
Local climate
Post Office Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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