The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- empty-transept-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Post Office, Main Street, Iwerne Courtney or Shroton, DT11 8QB
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 126
- Coordinates
- 50.91288, -2.20076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a house that is partly used as a shop, likely built in the mid-18th century. It features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof with brick end stacks. The building has two storeys and includes two part-glazed panelled doors. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century shop window with glazing bars beneath a hipped thatched roof, along with one small 20th-century casement window and an 18th-century oak casement window, although the glazing has been removed from the latter. The first floor has four 18th-century oak windows with head lights and one small 20th-century casement. At the rear, there is an original 18th-century door frame. Inside, the shop features a large open fireplace with a timber lintel, and there is a simple plank and muntin partition on the first floor.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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