Greenwood Cottage Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Greenwood Cottage Old Post Office
- WRENN ID
- tall-wicket-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Greenwood Cottage Old Post Office, Stinsford, DT2 8PZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 720 908
- Coordinates
- 50.71679, -2.39664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenwood Cottage and Old Post Office are a pair of 18th-century cottages located in Lower Bockhampton. Originally listed as a pair of cottages 60 yards southeast of the school, they are constructed of rubblestone walls with a hipped thatched roof and a central brick stack. The Old Post Office has a brick porch with a pantile roof and a round arched opening, containing a pair of 20th-century glazed doors. Both ground and first floors have two casement windows, with cast iron glazing. A later two-storeyed brick rear wing features a slate roof. Greenwood Cottage has a plastered porch with a gabled pantile roof and a 20th-century stable door. The ground floor has two casement windows, and the first floor has two casements, one with leaded lights and one with cast iron glazing. A 20th-century single-storey rear extension has been added.
Local climate
Greenwood Cottage Old 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- 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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