The General Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
The General Post Office
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rotunda-lichen
- 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
- The General Post Office, 47, Cheap Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AT
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94868, -2.51609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Post Office, located at 47 Cheap Street, is a mid-19th century building. It has two storeys and features five window bays. The front is made of ham stone, with finely dressed ashlar on the first floor and a rusticated ground floor topped with a cornice. The eaves have a moulded cornice with modillions above a frieze. The first floor has sash windows that are three panes wide, each with moulded architraves, a cornice, a frieze, and sills. The ground floor has wider windows that are also three panes wide. The central doorway is framed by a tall moulded architrave and has a moulded cornice supported by carved trusses, along with a rectangular fanlight and a six-panelled door. This building was originally a private residence. It is part of a group that includes Nos 29 to 53 (odd) and No 53A.
Local climate
The General 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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