The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- grey-footing-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Post Office, the Street, Motcombe, SP7 9NT
- OS grid reference
- ST 850 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02618, -2.21413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a house, likely dating to the late 18th century. It has rendered walls and a gable-ended thatched roof, with brick stacks at each end and partway along the ridge on the left side. The house is two storeys high with a five-window front. It features a variety of sash windows and two-light casements, with some leaded-lights in the upper central windows. A two-plank door is positioned to the right of centre.
Local climate
The Old Post Office receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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