The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- nether-spindle-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, B5320 (North Side), Tirril, Sockbridge and Tirril, CA10 2JE
- OS grid reference
- NY 503 267
- Coordinates
- 54.63301, -2.77031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The south elevation has two storeys and three bays, with the first bay being a later addition. The windows have stone surrounds; the ground floor includes sash windows with glazing bars, while the third bay has a 20th-century casement window. On the first floor, there is a sash window with single glazing bars. The entrance, located between the second and third bays, is sheltered by a gabled canopy and features a half-glazed door. The building has gable-end stacks and a rear that includes a canted stair wing beneath a catslide roof. It is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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