No 1, The Post Office and Nos 2-4 The Square (East Side) is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Post office, house. 1 related planning application.
No 1, The Post Office and Nos 2-4 The Square (East Side)
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pinnacle-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Post office, house
- Address
- No 1, The Post Office and Nos 2-4 The Square (East Side), Burton-In-Kendal, LA6 1LX
- OS grid reference
- SD 530 764
- Coordinates
- 54.18149, -2.72116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century post office and three attached houses forming the east side of The Square in Burton. The building is constructed from roughly-coursed stone rubble with stone dressings, and has a slate roof. It is three storeys high and has five windows. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set in plain surrounds. Numbers 1 and 2 have paired six-panelled doors in plain surrounds, each topped with a moulded pediment and flanked by a window on either side. Numbers 3 and 4 also have paired six-panelled doors in plain surrounds, but without the pediment and with a window to each side. The building features a plinth, quoins, a modillioned eaves cornice, and three chimneys.
Local climate
No 1, The Post Office and Nos 2-4 The Square (East Side) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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