The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1971. House.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
former-lintel-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1971
Type
House
Address
The Post Office, Thirsk Road, Baldersby
OS grid reference
SE 355 786
Coordinates
54.20224, -1.45632
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office is a house built around 1859 by William Butterfield. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and has a 20th-century tiled roof. The building is square in shape, with a shop front facing the road and the house front on the left side. It has two storeys and two bays. The shop features a 20th-century half-glazed door on the right and a large 20th-century shop window in the center. To the left, there is a wooden casement window with three lights, each containing eight panes, set under a segmental relieving arch made of blue brick. Above this, there is a similar two-light window under a gable, and a diaper pattern in blue headers to the right, above the shop window. A central brick stack is stepped with tumbled-in brickwork.

The house facade includes a central shallow gabled porch, with a 20th-century wooden casement window on the left under a segmental blue brick arch, and a small wooden casement window with eight panes on the right. Above the porch, there is a two-light window with 16 panes under a hipped dormer.

Local climate

The Post Office receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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