Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Shop, dwelling. 3 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-sandstone-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- Post Office, 14, High Street, Dorchester, OX10 7HH
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 942
- Coordinates
- 51.64405, -1.16544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a shop and dwelling, dating to the 17th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of colourwashed brick with some light framing, and has old plain-tile roofs and brick stacks. It originally comprised two units, later extended to three. The front has one storey plus attics and two storeys. The central and right bays are older and lower, featuring a central, segmental-arched carriage entry. To the right is a six-panel door and a tripartite sash window, both sharing a segmental arch. To the left is a long, small-pane window from the 18th century, with a half-glazed stable door beneath timber-framed walling. The left bay is taller and contains a canted gabled first-floor bay window above a shop window with three arched small-pane lights. A lower roof has two gabled dormers. The interior remains uninspected.
Local climate
Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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