Cottage Adjoining the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. A C18 Cottage.
Cottage Adjoining the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- silent-obsidian-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SY 804 894
- Coordinates
- 50.70414, -2.27768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located next to the Post Office. The building features brick walls resting on a stone base, a thatched roof, and brick chimney stacks. It has two storeys, with a single-storey lean-to on the north side that has part rendered walls and a corrugated asbestos roof. The entrance includes a central flush panelled part-glazed door set within a timber porch. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with cast iron lights. The first floor has three casement windows: two with cast iron lights and one with timber glazing bars. There is also a second blocked door opening next to the Post Office, with a blocked window above it.
Local climate
Cottage Adjoining the Post Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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