Former Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. House.
Former Post Office
- WRENN ID
- hollow-obsidian-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Post Office, the Fold, Lower Holker
- OS grid reference
- SD 362 764
- Coordinates
- 54.18028, -2.97804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Post Office in Cark is a house that likely dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays with a central entrance plan. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, each containing 16 panes. The central entrance is adorned with a flat bracketed canopy and a six-fielded-panel door, two of which are glazed. There are gable-end stacks. On the left side, there is a sashed window and another window with a small-paned pivoted casement. The rear wing includes an entrance and two small windows on the ground floor, along with one window on the first floor. The right side of the wing has an entrance and a long window featuring small-paned fixed glazing.
Local climate
Former Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
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