Ruswarp Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1972. Commercial.
Ruswarp Post Office
- WRENN ID
- heavy-frieze-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Ruswarp Post Office, 12, High Street, Whitby
- OS grid reference
- NZ 889 092
- Coordinates
- 54.47123, -0.62936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruswarp Post Office, located at 12 High Street, is an early 18th-century building. It features a hipped pantile roof and is one storey high with attics. The exterior is roughly rendered. There is one dormer window at the front and a semi-dormer above a small shop window on the side. The front has a rectangular 19th-century bay with a Welsh slate roof, which includes a shop window and two additional windows with two and three lights. The shop door is set in quoins to the left, while a plain door is located to the right.
Local climate
Ruswarp Post Office receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
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