The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1974. Cottage and shop.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- endless-gateway-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1974
- Type
- Cottage and shop
- Address
- The Post Office, Village Street, Tarrant Keyneston
- OS grid reference
- ST 932 046
- Coordinates
- 50.84095, -2.09764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a cottage that has been converted into a cottage and shop, dating from the 18th century. It features rendered and whitewashed walls with thatched roofs. The building is one and a half storeys tall and has a three-window range, with 2-light casements that include horizontal glazing bars. There is a 20th-century plank door. To the right, there is a shop extension. The attached cottage on the right is not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
The Post Office receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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