The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottage with shop. 2 related planning applications.
The Post Office
- WRENN ID
- solemn-transept-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cottage with shop
- Address
- The Post Office, Kimmeridge
- OS grid reference
- SY 916 798
- Coordinates
- 50.61813, -2.11921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is a cottage with a shop, dating from the 18th century, with an extension added to the south. The original section features stone walls, a thatched roof, and a brick stack. The extension has stone walls, a slate roof, and a brick stack. The building is single-storey. The original part includes a ledged door with a glass panel and two casement windows with glazing bars. The extension has a modern glazed door and two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. There is a stone boundary wall along the road with rough stepped coping.
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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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