Corfe Castle Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Post office, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Corfe Castle Post Office
- WRENN ID
- dim-sill-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Post office, shop
- Address
- Corfe Castle Post Office, 3, West Street
- OS grid reference
- SY 960 820
- Coordinates
- 50.63768, -2.05711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corfe Castle Post Office is a house that also serves as a shop and Post Office, mainly dating from the 18th century but incorporating parts of a 17th-century house. It features coursed rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof, with brick stacks at the right end and at the rear. The building has two storeys. The ground floor includes a part-glazed ledged door beneath a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, along with four casements with lead lights set under flat arches. The first floor has five casements with lead lights. To the left, there is an attached flat-roofed garage made of stone with plain coping and timber garage doors. The rear of the building contains remains of the earlier structure. This property is managed by the National Trust.
Local climate
Corfe Castle 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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