The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1970. Post office, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- former-cinder-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1970
- Type
- Post office, house
- Address
- The Post Office, 6, Market Place, Bedale, DL8 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 265 882
- Coordinates
- 54.28912, -1.5932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a building that was originally a house, dating from the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a graduated slate roof. The building has three storeys and five bays, with a plinth at the base. The entrance is an early 20th-century four-panel door with an overlight, framed by pilasters, consoles, a frieze, and a cornice. All the windows are sash style, with flat brick arches and stone cills. The eaves are stepped and dentilled, and there is stone coping along the top. The building has end stacks for chimneys.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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