Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- over-slate-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Post Office, 79, Fortuneswell, Portland, DT5 1NP
- OS grid reference
- SY 686 734
- Coordinates
- 50.55982, -2.44325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office in Fortuneswell, Portland, is a commercial building dated 1894. It is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and decorative terra-cotta elements, topped with a slate roof featuring clay cresting. The building stands three storeys high and has two bays, with central plaques.
On the second floor, there are paired arched plate-glass sash windows set in raised surrounds, which feature bold keystones and pilasters above a plat cill band. Below, the ground floor includes two windows flanking deep-set doors that are framed by fluted 'Doric' pilasters, along with an additional 19th-century panelled door with a segmental head and keystone, all beneath a prominent cornice with cast iron cresting.
At the first floor, there is a stone plaque inscribed with "POST OFFICE AD 1894," and above it, a terracotta panel depicting a head flanked by swags. A terra-cotta frieze with roundels and two-course dentils runs along the eaves level, partially into the extrados of the second-floor arches. Plain pilasters frame the upper two floors. This building represents a typical bold commercial design that has remained unaltered over the years.
Local climate
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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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