Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 2000. Post office. 7 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- pale-forge-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2000
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, Aberdeen Walk, Scarborough, YO11 1AB
- OS grid reference
- TA 041 885
- Coordinates
- 54.28235, -0.4023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, built in 1909, is a three-storey building designed in the Baroque Revival style. It features red brick construction with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, along with a polished flush marble plinth. The street-facing side has 11 windows, with a central section projecting slightly and consisting of five windows, flanked by two-window side wings and single-window pavilions at each end.
The central bay has a moulded ashlar doorway adorned with prominent keystones and Ionic columns that support a large segmental pediment, which includes a plaque inscribed with "POST OFFICE 1909." Above this, giant Ionic pilasters hold a steep pediment, featuring a tall glazing bar sash with a prominent keystone and segmental pediment, along with a smaller glazing bar sash above in a simpler moulded surround.
On either side of the central bay, there are two glazing bar sashes set in complex moulded surrounds. The first floor has two glazing bar sashes with keystones and pediments, while the second floor features smaller glazing bar sashes with keystones between the windows. The building is further enhanced by giant banded pilasters topped with a deep dentilated cornice and a brick parapet. The pavilions have round-headed ashlar arches with prominent keystones on the ground floor, similar sashes above with triangular pediments, and are topped with circular windows, all set in a shallow curve with banded quoins and scrolled tops.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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