Post Office and Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Shop_premises. 4 related planning applications.
Post Office and Stores
- WRENN ID
- endless-gravel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Shop_premises
- Address
- Post Office and Stores, 21, Fore Street, Evershot, DT2 0JR
- OS grid reference
- ST 573 044
- Coordinates
- 50.8383, -2.60665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office and Stores, located at No. 21 Evershot Fore Street, is a shop and attached house dating from the early 19th century. It features brick walls constructed in Flemish bond and a slate roof with stone gable copings. There is a 20th-century brick stack on the left gable. The building is two storeys tall and has four windows on the first floor, which are sash windows with glazing bars, gauged brick voussoirs, and stone cills.
The shop front on the left side of the ground floor has two segmental bay windows with short canted sides, featuring fixed windows with full wood glazing bars, pilaster framing, a continuous frieze, and a moulded cornice above. At the centre of the shop front is a two-leaf glass-panelled door. To the right of centre, there is a six-panelled front door with a fanlight that includes glazing bars, dating from the 19th century, framed by a round-headed arch surround with gauged brickwork.
Local climate
Post Office and Stores receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 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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