Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. House, post office.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- low-entrance-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Post Office, the Square, Kirkoswald
- OS grid reference
- NY 554 412
- Coordinates
- 54.76396, -2.6933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a house and post office dating from the early 18th century. It features incised stucco walls set on a chamfered plinth with pilastered quoins. The roof is made of red sandstone slate, and there are ashlar chimney stacks on stucco bases. The structure is two storeys high and has five bays. The entrance includes a 4-panel top glazed 19th-century door with a fanlight, framed by a pilastered surround and a prostyle porch supported by square pilastered columns with a flat roof. The ground floor has 2-pane double sash windows, while the upper floor features sash windows with glazing bars, all surrounded by plain painted stone.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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