The Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Cottage, shop. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- rusted-gable-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Village Street, Alton Pancras, DT2 7RW
- OS grid reference
- ST 700 023
- Coordinates
- 50.81993, -2.42655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office is a cottage and shop dating to 1826. It is constructed of banded flint and brick, with a thatched, gable-ended roof and end brick stacks at the ends of the original range. The building comprises a shop range to the right and an outshut to the left, added later. The original range presents a two-storey, three-window facade. It has two-light casement windows with full and horizontal glazing bars. A central panelled door provides access. The building is described in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Dorset, volume III, page 2, number 5.
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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 2013
- 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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