Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, shop.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- late-pedestal-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Post Office, Park View, Lower Allithwaite
- OS grid reference
- SD 377 787
- Coordinates
- 54.20096, -2.95507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office in Cartmel is a house and shop that likely dates from the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and features three irregular bays. On the ground floor, the first bay has a window with small-paned fixed glazing, the second bay has a small-paned bow window, and the third bay has a sashed window with glazing bars. The first floor includes windows with small-paned metal casements, with the window in the second bay having a segmental head. The entrance, located in the first bay, consists of a half-glazed door. There is a cross-axial stack on the roof. The left return, which faces The Square, has a small-paned bow window flanked by panelling and an entablature, while the first floor features a sashed window with glazing bars and horns. The rear of the building has five irregular bays with varied window arrangements; the first floor has sashed windows with glazing bars only in the fourth and fifth bays, and there is a gable-end stack.
Local climate
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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