Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Terrace of cottages.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- fallow-lead-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- Post Office, 6, East Lulworth
- OS grid reference
- SY 860 821
- Coordinates
- 50.63927, -2.19903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office is part of a terrace of cottages, likely built in the 18th century. The cottages feature plastered walls, thatched roofs, and brick stacks, and are two storeys tall.
No. 6, which houses the Post Office, has a ledged door and two modern shop windows with glazing bars. On the first floor, there are two horizontally sliding sash windows, one with glazing bars and the other with lead lights. There is an extension to the east, constructed in a similar style, which likely started as a barn.
No. 7 has a ledged door and three horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor. The first floor has three similar windows, one with glazing bars and two with lead lights.
No. 8 features a lean-to extension to the west under a thatched catslide roof. It has a ledged door with a glass panel. The ground floor includes one horizontally sliding sash window and one casement window, both with glazing bars, while the first floor has two similar casement windows. The main room on the ground floor has a large open fireplace.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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