Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- vast-stronghold-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Post Office, A65, Coniston Cold, BD23 4EA
- OS grid reference
- SD 904 550
- Coordinates
- 53.99099, -2.14766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, featuring altered openings. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and has three chimneys. The building is two storeys high, but from the road, it appears as a continuous outshut, with a two-storey section on the left and a single-storey section on the right. The windows are unmoulded, with two 2-light windows on the left side of a plain doorway, and a large sash window with all glazing bars on the right. Next to one of the 2-light windows is a blocked circular light from an earlier period. Additionally, there is a lean-to against the left gable that has a double chamfered surround, possibly for an early 18th-century 2-light window. There are also other altered or modern openings present.
Local climate
Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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