Post Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Cottage.

Post Office Cottage

WRENN ID
unlit-wicket-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Post Office Cottage, Duck Street, Symondsbury
OS grid reference
SY 446 935
Coordinates
50.73908, -2.786
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Post Office Cottage is a 18th-century single cottage that was formerly two separate cottages. It features coursed Lias stone walls made of large blocks and has a thatched roof with gable ends. There are renewed brick stacks at both the left and right gables. The building is two storeys high and has two windows with renewed 2-light wooden casements. Originally, there were two front doors, indicated by two blocked entrances with voussoirs above them. The current front door is located at a modern rear extension.

Local climate

Post Office Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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