London House the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Post office, house. 2 related planning applications.
London House the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- plain-terrace-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Post office, house
- Address
- London House the Post Office, the Square, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QD
- OS grid reference
- ST 437 025
- Coordinates
- 50.8201, -2.80027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
London House and the Post Office is an attached building that serves as both a store and a residence, constructed around 1800. It features ashlar stone walls and has a combination of slate and stone slab roofs, with stone gable-coping on the right side. There are brick stacks located on the left-hand ridge and the right-hand gable. The building is two storeys tall and includes 20th-century dormers on London House.
The front facade has four sash windows with glazing bars that are irregularly spaced; the ground floor windows are four panes wide, while those on the first floor are five panes wide. The left side of the ground floor contains a 19th-century shop front for the Post Office, which features canted shop windows with mullions on either side of a central door. The shop has a reeded wood surround and a rounded fascia board with a small bolt cornice.
The entrance to London House is located at the center right of the building, featuring a door with six flush and recessed panels, dating from the 19th century, and is topped by a flat canopy supported by wooden brackets. There is also a side range of the Post Office that extends up Back Lane, which has painted stone walls and is two storeys high with three windows that have 20th-century metal casements.
Local climate
London House the Post Office receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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 1998
- 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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