The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Post office.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- silver-buttress-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Post Office, West Street, Winterborne Stickland
- OS grid reference
- ST 834 045
- Coordinates
- 50.84052, -2.23623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features a combination of banded brick and flint, with a 20th-century shop extension on the right side. The building has a thatched roof with brick stacks at each end. It is one and a half storeys high and has a three-window range, although the windows have been replaced with 20th-century picture windows. The central entrance includes a thatched porch with a part-glazed 20th-century door.
Local climate
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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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