Glenville and Long Street Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. A C19 Post office.
Glenville and Long Street Post Office
- WRENN ID
- long-quartz-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Glenville and Long Street Post Office, Sherborne, DT9 3DD
- OS grid reference
- ST 643 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94893, -2.50905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glenville and Long Street Post Office is a mid to late 19th century building that stands two storeys high with an attic. It features three window bays and has a slate gabled roof with three gabled dormers. The front is rendered, resting on a stone plinth. The building has sash windows, although the horizontal glazing bars are missing. Glenville has a round-headed doorway with a plain fanlight and a four-flush panelled door. The Post Office section includes a small plate glass shop front with a fascia, cornice, and small voluted brackets. This building is part of a group that includes The Red House, Grey Lodge, forecourt walls and railings to The Red House, Donore, wall railings and gate to Donore, Eastbury House, including a carriage entrance to the east and a garden wall to the west, Elizabeth House, Bracondale, The Cedars, East Cedars, a garden wall adjoining The Cedars on the west side, Corby House, Hill View Lodge, and Masongill.
Local climate
Glenville and Long Street Post Office receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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- Radon risk assessment
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