Post Office Sorting Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1984. Post office.
Post Office Sorting Office
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gargoyle-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1984
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office Sorting Office, 23, North Street, Ripon
- OS grid reference
- SE 311 715
- Coordinates
- 54.13866, -1.52398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office Sorting Office, located at 23 North Street in Ripon, was opened in 1906 and designed by architect JG Burrell. The building features a ground floor made of ashlar stone and a first floor constructed of red brick, topped with a slate mansard roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and is characterized by a heavy wooden cornice with modillions at the eaves.
Above the ground floor, there is a moulded band adorned with large sculpted bosses. The façade has four bays, each with sash windows that include glazing bars and tall double keystones. The ground floor openings are framed with jambs and voussoirs that alternate between plain and moulded styles. Two of these openings are doors, each with six moulded panels and an oblong fanlight featuring glazing bars. The front door is particularly notable for its segment-shaped ashlar hood, which is suspended by cast iron braces.
At the top, there are four flat-topped attic dormers, each with moulded cornices and angle pilasters. The building also has red brick chimney stacks topped with modillioned ashlar cornices, and two cast iron downpipes that feature large shaped rainwater heads.
Local climate
Post Office Sorting Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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