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

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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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