The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- drifting-lead-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Post Office, Rampisham, DT2 0PT
- OS grid reference
- ST 562 023
- Coordinates
- 50.81926, -2.62299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a detached cottage, originally two separate buildings, dating from the early 18th century. It has undergone 20th-century changes, particularly in its windows, which are mainly in original openings. The walls are constructed of rubble stone and chalk block, and they are painted. The roof is thatched and hipped at both ends, with brick stacks located at the left ridge and to the right of the center. The building has one and a half storeys and features four windows, which are three-light metal casements from the 20th century, complete with glazing bars, and two-light dormers above. The front door, positioned to the right of center, is a 19th-century plank door. There is a substantial painted brick porch with a hipped thatch roof, also from the 19th century. Additionally, there is a plank door to the left of center, topped with a wooden lintel, and plank doors leading to a carriage entrance at the left end of the building.
Local climate
The 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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