Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Post office.

Post Office

WRENN ID
patient-gargoyle-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1984
Type
Post office
Address
Post Office, 5, Front Street, Brampton
OS grid reference
NY 530 610
Coordinates
54.94194, -2.73506
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a post office, which was originally a house, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of dressed red and yellow sandstone, with ashlar stonework on the ground floor and raised quoins on the left side only. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features a yellow brick chimney stack. The building has 20th-century shop windows and doors, while above, there are 20th-century two-pane casements that have painted stone surrounds. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% 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 58 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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