Worth Matravers Post Office and Village Store is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottage, shop. 4 related planning applications.

Worth Matravers Post Office and Village Store

WRENN ID
high-step-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Cottage, shop
Address
Worth Matravers Post Office and Village Store, BH19 3LQ
OS grid reference
SY 973 774
Coordinates
50.59682, -2.03874
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

An 18th-century cottage with an attached 20th-century shop, situated at an angle to the road in Worth Matravers village. The cottage has rubble stone walls, with one end wall plastered. It features a stone slate roof and a stone end stack. The building is two storeys high with attics. A 20th-century lean-to has been added to the front, also with a stone slate roof. The west wall (left side) has one 20th-century metal window on the ground floor. The first floor has a casement window with glazing bars. Two pent-roofed dormers with casements are visible in the attic. The shop is single-storeyed, with stone walls and a stone slate roof, and contains a 20th-century shop window. Inside, a large open fireplace with a timber lintol and remnants of a bread oven are still present in the main ground floor room.

Local climate

Worth Matravers Post Office and Village Store receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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  • 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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