The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. House.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- distant-thatch-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Post Office, Main Street, Hovingham
- OS grid reference
- SE 667 756
- Coordinates
- 54.17273, -0.97875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a building that originated as two cottages, now combined into one house with a shop. It dates from the late 18th century and is constructed of hammer-dressed limestone with a pantile roof. The building has two storeys and features three first-floor windows. On the left side, there is a half-glazed door and a 20th-century shop front. On the right side, there is another half-glazed door, a blocked doorway, and a replacement 16-pane sash window. The first floor also has 16-pane sash windows, all with flat stone arches above. The building has end stacks.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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